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Meg Hourihan is the cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that launched the Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google. She published weblogs at Megnut.com and meg.hourihan.com. She co-founded Kinja along with Nick Denton of Gawker Media.
She is the co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6), and a frequent speaker at technical conferences concerning online journalism and the role of women in technology. In 2003, she was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. PC Magazine named Evan Williams, Paul Bausch, and Hourihan — the Blogger team — as People of the Year in 2004.
She was a member of the RSS Advisory Board from 2006 to 2007.
Hourihan married fellow blogger Jason Kottke on March 25, 2006. Their son, Ollie, was born on July 3, 2007. Their daughter, Minna, was born September 21, 2009.

Active provides technology and marketing services to thousands of organizations and is the leader for online registration and online communities for active lifestyles, serving millions of participants worldwide.

The Active Network, Inc., got its official start in
1998 as a Web portal with regional grassroots sports information to
recreational athletes, though some of the company's software
development began as early as 1976 under Class Software, Ltd.
Within two years, Active.com was processing more than one million transactions involving event and league registrations, web publishing and e-commerce.
The company further solidified its place in the participatory sports
market with the acquisition and development of media properties such as:

eteamz.com, which offers team home pages, online registration and fundraising services to teams, leagues, camps and tournaments.

ActiveGolf.com, a source of local golf information, online tee time reservations and more.

Software Technology and Marketing Access
With its online communities in full swing, The Active Network turned
its attention to finding other ways to use technology to support
participation in and management of sports, activities and organizations
that foster healthy, active lifestyles.
The company launched a full service marketing and promotions agency, the Active Marketing Group, to help brand marketers communicate with active consumers.
The company also introduced a line of technology and marketing
solutions to help community organizations manage programs, facilities,
memberships, registrations, donations and Web content. One of the
line’s initial offerings was Recware, the
first-ever hosted, Internet registration solution for the recreation
industry. That product was later joined by other industry-leading
software and online brands such as ActiveNet (RecNet) and Class Software, Ltd.,
the latter acquisition bringing an additional 30 years of experience in
recreation and municipal management software solutions.
The Active Network Today
Today, the Active Network’s technology solutions are used by more
than 100,000 events and 4000 community organizations. Active's media
properties generate 100 million visits a month and over 12 million
registered users participate through our online communities. The Active
Network has made Inc. 500’s list of the fastest growing privately held
companies for three years in a row, with average annual sales growth of
442.9 percent over that time.

Assembleron Limited is a UK software technology company formed in 2007. The company is based in the Reading Enterprise Hub on the Whiteknights campus of the University of Reading, in the English city of Reading.

Riya was
founded in August 2004 and has assembled one of the largest visual
computing research teams in the world. Its mission is to simplify
search and ecommerce by harnessing the latest breakthroughs in visual
computing. It has almost one dozen patents pending in the areas of
visual recognition and search. Riya has raised $19.5 million from
venture and private equity investors, including Bay Partners, BlueRun
Ventures, and Leapfrog Ventures. Their website, like.com, is the first true visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search and retrieve similar items.

Orange is a French multinational telecommunications corporation and represents the flagship brand of the France Telecom group. It is a global provider for mobile phone, landline, Internet, mobile internet, and IP television services, with 226 million customers as of December 2011 and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.
The brand was created when Hutchison Whampoa acquired a controlling stake in Microtel Communications Ltd during the early-1990s and rebranded it Orange. It became a subsidiary of Mannesmann in 1999 and was acquired by France Telecom in 2000.
The inception of Orange brand was in 1990 in United Kingdom with the formation of "Microtel Communications Ltd" - a consortium initially formed by Pactel Corporation (American), British Aerospace, Millicom and Matra (French); and later, to be wholly owned by BAe. In July 1991, the Hong Kong based conglomerate - Hutchison Whampoa through a stock swap deal with BAe, acquires a controlling stake of 65% in Microtel, who by then had won a license to develop a mobile network in United Kingdom.
Subsequently, Hutchison renames Microtel

Lala.com is a music site where fans can trade CDs for $1, buy new CDs
at wholesale prices, get music recommendations, listen to live shows
and tune into radio stations programmed by other fans and professional
DJs. With a catalog of 1.8 million album unique titles and over 5
million CDs listed by its members, lala.com is building the largest,
most diverse music site on earth. With immense admiration and gratitude
to musicians, lala.com is the first and only music retailer to
introduce payments to musicians based on the trade of used recordings.

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.
Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, VEVO, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can watch videos, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users at least 18 years old. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen and Karim

The Center for Jewish History is a partnership in New York City of five Jewish history, scholarship and art organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. It is also an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.
The Center is a 125,000 square feet (11,600 m) facility created from four existing buildings and two new buildings. The partners' collections include more than 100 million documents, 500,000 books and thousands of art objects, most of which had been poorly housed in the member institutions and were at risk of damage or destruction. The Center is heavily involved with the preservation of records that define moments in Jewish immigration to New York City. A $670,000 grant awarded in 2007 helped with the cataloging of these materials.
The partners' collections include the original handwritten copy of Emma Lazarus' 1883 "Give me your tired, your poor" poem that was later inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty; Sandy Koufax's Brooklyn Dodgers jersey; a letter from Thomas Jefferson to New York's oldest Jewish congregation; and the first Hebrew prayer

E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.
E! currently has an audience reach of 88 million cable and satellite viewers in the U.S. and 600 million homes internationally.
E! Entertainment Television was founded by Larry Namer and Alan Mruvka.
The network launched on July 31, 1987 as Movietime, a service that aired movie trailers, entertainment news, event and awards coverage, and interviews as an early example of a national barker channel. Early Movietime hosts included Greg Kinnear, Paula Abdul, Katie Wagner, Julie Moran, Suzanne Kay (daughter of Diahann Carroll), Mark DeCarlo, Sam Rubin and Richard Blade. Three years later, in June 1990, Movietime was renamed E! Entertainment Television to emphasize its widening coverage of the celebrity-industrial complex, contemporary film, television and music, daily Hollywood gossip, and fashion.
Controlling ownership was originally held by a consortium of five cable companies (Comcast, Continental Cablevision, Cox

Obopay is a company that provides mobile payment solutions including technology, platforms and end-to-end implementation services. Founded in 2005, Obopay offers its service to partners, providing them with the ability to bring their own branded mobile money technology and services to market. Its solution are used by companies including Nokia (Nokia Money in India), Societe Generale (Yobantel by Obopay in Africa) , MasterCard (MasterCard MoneySend in the U.S.), First Data (with the STAR network in the U.S.), FIS Global (with the NYCE network in the U.S.), Essar (Yu Cash by Obopay in Kenya), Warid Telecom (Warid Pesa in Uganda)and others. The solutions offered include digital wallets, money transfer (send and receive money), disbursements, bill pay, mobile and electronic commerce, mobile phone minutes top up, cross border remittance and agent networks that enable partners to extend the distribution of financial service through new retail channels. The service works on mobile phones through multiple channels and technology types including SMS, IVR, WAP, GPRS, USSD, SIM Toolkits as well as Smart Phone applications.
Carol Realini founded Obopay after traveling in Africa and recognizing

Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include Macintosh computers, the iPod and the iPhone. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system, the iTunes media browser, the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software, the iWork suite of productivity software, and Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products. The company operates more than 250 retail stores in nine countries and an online store where hardware and software products are sold.

Max Barry (born 18 March 1973) is a contemporary Australian author. He also maintains a blog on various topics, including writing, marketing and politics. When he published his first novel, Syrup, he spelled his name "Maxx", but subsequently has used "Max".
Barry is also the creator of NationStates, a game created to help advertise Jennifer Government, and is the owner of the website 'Tales of Corporate Oppression'. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughters and worked as a marketer for Hewlett-Packard before he became a novelist.
In early 2004 Barry converted his web site to a weblog and began regularly posting to it. In the November 2004 issue of the magazine Fast Company the novel Company was ranked at number 8 on a list of the top 100 “people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005.” Barry has recently finished writing the screenplay for Syrup, which was optioned by Fortress Entertainment. Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to Company, which will be adapted by Steve Pink. Jennifer Government was optioned by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's now defunct Section Eight Productions. His book, Machine Man, initially was an online

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is an American magazine, featuring investigative and breaking news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture. Mother Jones has been nominated for 23 National Magazine Awards and has won six times, including for General Excellence in 2001, 2008, and 2010. In addition, Mother Jones also won the Online News Association Award for Online Topical Reporting in 2010 and the Utne Reader Independent Press Award for General Excellence in 2011.
Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery serve as co-editors. Madeleine Buckingham has served as Chief Executive Officer and Steve Katz as Publisher since 2010.
The magazine was named after Mary Harris Jones, called Mother Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist, opponent of child labor, and self-described "hellraiser." She was a part of the Knights of Labor, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Social Democratic Party, the Socialist Party of America, the United Mine Workers of America, and the Western Federation of Miners. The stated mission of Mother Jones is to produce revelatory journalism that in its power and reach informs and inspires a more just and democratic world.
Mother Jones is

Peter Rojas (born March 18, 1975) is the co-founder of technology blogs Gizmodo and Engadget, as well as the video gaming blog Joystiq (2004). A 2006 article in New York magazine described him as "the best-compensated blogger in history".
Rojas attended Harvard University from 1993 to 1997, graduating magna cum laude with a B.A. in Social Studies. In 1998 he received an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Sussex.
Rojas worked at Red Herring magazine from June 1999 to May 2001, first as Associate Editor then as a writer. He was co-founder and Editorial Director of Gizmodo from July 2002 until March 2004, leaving to co-found Engadget. Two months later he also founded the video game blog Joystiq. Both were part of Weblogs Inc., a blog network that was purchased by AOL in 2005.
Along with Josh Deutsch of Downtown Records, Rojas launched the online record label RCRD LBL in 2007.
In July 2008 Rojas left Engadget to start the consumer electronics social networking site gdgt. The site premiered in 2009 and was co-founded with Ryan Block, Rojas' successor as Engadget editor-in-chief.
In July 2007, Rojas married Jill Fehrenbacher, the founder of the blog Inhabitat. The couple

The United States Department of Agriculture (informally the Agriculture Department or USDA) is the United States federal executive department responsible for developing and executing U.S. federal government policy on farming, agriculture, and food. It aims to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers, promote agricultural trade and production, work to assure food safety, protect natural resources, foster rural communities and end hunger in the United States and abroad.
The head of the department is the Secretary of Agriculture, who is a member of the Cabinet. The current Secretary is Tom Vilsack.
Early in its history, the economy of the United States was largely agrarian. Officials in the federal government had long sought new and improved varieties of seeds, plants and animals for importation to the United States. In 1837 Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, a Yale-educated attorney interested in improving agriculture, became Commissioner of Patents, a position within the Department of State. He soon began collecting and distributing new varieties of seeds and plants through members of the Congress and agricultural societies. In 1839, Congress established the Agricultural Division within the

Demand Media, Inc. is an American content and social-media company that operates online brands such as eHow, and Cracked, and is known for creating online content through its Demand Media Studios division based on a combination of measured consumer demand and predicted ROI. The company also provides social-media platforms to existing large company websites and distributes content bundled with social-media tools to outlets around the web. The company also owns eNom, the world’s second-largest domain registrar.
Demand Media was created in 2006 by a former private equity investor, Shawn Colo, and the former chairman of MySpace, Richard Rosenblatt.
The company employs an algorithm that identifies topics with high advertising potential, based on search engine query data and bids on advertising auctions. These topics are typically in the advice and how-to field. It then commissions freelancers to produce corresponding text or video content. The content is posted on a variety of sites, including YouTube and the company's own sites such as eHow, Livestrong.com, Trails.com, GolfLink.com, Mania.com, and Cracked.com.
Demand Media was co-founded in May 2006 by Richard Rosenblatt and Shawn

The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is an American, non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation. Incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world and uses science, education and grassroots advocacy to advance its conservation mission. It is named in honor of John James Audubon, a Franco-American ornithologist and naturalist who painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America in his famous book Birds of America published in sections between 1827 and 1838.
The society has nearly 500 local chapters, each of which is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization voluntarily affiliated with the National Audubon Society, which often organize birdwatching field trips and conservation-related activities. It also coordinates the Christmas Bird Count held each December in the U.S., a model of citizen science, in partnership with Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Great Backyard Bird Count each February. Together with Cornell, Audubon created eBird, an online database for bird observation. The National Audubon Society also has many global partners to help birds that migrate beyond our borders, including BirdLife

Powerset is a Silicon Valley company building a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing. Powerset's unique innovations in search are rooted in breakthrough
technologies that take advantage of the structure and nuances of
natural language. Using these advanced techniques, Powerset is building
a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search. By making search more natural and intuitive, Powerset is
fundamentally changing how we search the web, and delivering higher
quality results.

Robert (Maxwell) Hood (born 24 July 1951) is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers. He has published five young adult novels, three collections of his short fiction, fifteen children's books and over 100 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas. He has also written plays, academic articles and poetry and co-edited anthologies of horror and crime. He has been nominated for three Aurealis Awards and eight Ditmars. In 2006 Hood won a Ditmar Award for Best Collection for Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (edited with Robin Pen) and another in 2009 for his film review and commentary website, Undead Backbrain.
Robert Hood was born in 1951 in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. At the age of nine he moved with his family to Collaroy Plateau on the northern beaches of Sydney. His initial experiments in writing began in primary school, where he produced short “flash fiction” style pieces. He continued to write fiction throughout his teens, and in first year of high school commenced his first full length piece, which he later described with retrospective humour as "a bad Dr Who-type scifi novel", featuring an eccentric

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2010, and the largest builder of naval vessels. Northrop Grumman employs over 75,000 people worldwide. Its 2010 annual revenue is reported at US$34 billion. Northrop Grumman ranks #72 on the 2011 Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations and ranks in the top ten military-friendly employers. It has its headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia.
Newport News Shipbuilding manufactures all U.S. aircraft carriers, including supercarriers. It has built the Nimitz-class supercarriers and is building the new Gerald R. Ford-class supercarrier. It is also one of only two companies capable of producing U.S. nuclear submarines. A separate sector, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, produces amphibious assault ships and many other commercial and military craft, including icebreakers, tankers, and cargo ships. In a partnership with Science Applications International Corporation, Northrop Grumman provides naval engineering and architecture services as well as naval

Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps for mobile and tablet devices. The company, headquartered in New York City, was founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast and has been owned by the Newhouse family since 1959. S.I. “Si” Newhouse Jr. is the chairman and CEO of Advance Publications, Charles H. Townsend is Condé Nast’s chief executive officer and Robert A. Sauerberg is Condé Nast’s president.
Condé Nast is largely considered to be the originator of the “lifestyle magazines”, a type of magazines focused on a particular class or interest instead of targeting the largest possible readership. Its magazines focus on a wide range of subjects, including travel, food, home, culture, and other interests, with fashion the larger portion of the company's focus. More recently, Condé Nast has expanded its offerings to include marketing services and consumer-focused products such as apps and licensed merchandise. In 2010, GQ became the first

Black Duck Software is a private company based in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA. Black Duck Software is a provider of consulting and software for enabling enterprise adoption of open source software (OSS). Black Duck pioneered the automation, management and governance of open source software use in multi-source development processes. The company’s products and services allow organizations to analyze the composition of software source code and binary files, search for reusable code, manage open source and third-party code approval, honor the legal obligations associated with mixed-origin code, and monitor related security vulnerabilities. Black Duck is considered a technology industry leader and often cited in media articles about open source.
Founded in 2002, Black Duck has a fast-growing customer base including some of the largest companies in the world, and is among the 500 largest software companies in the world according to Softwaremag.com. The company has achieved over 30 percent annualized sales growth for the past three years.
Black Duck acquired the open source business strategy consulting company Olliance Group in 2011. Olliance Group organizes and manages the Open Source

Vidoop LLC is a privately held company based in Portland, Oregon. Its flagship product is Vidoop Secure, a login solution designed to function without traditional passwords, which Vidoop claims is resistant to brute force, keystroke logging, phishing, and some man-in-the-middle attacks. On 30 May 2009, Vidoop announced that it was going out of business.
Vidoop was founded in 2006 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As of March 2006 it had 4 employees and would initially reveal only that it was developing a novel login solution that hides an access code in plain sight. After over a year of secretive development and testing, the company launched its product, Vidoop Secure, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, California on 2007-04-17. Luke Sontag, a co-founder, gave a presentation at the expo demonstrating the technology and further announced that an unnamed Fortune 500 company would be replacing its login system with Vidoop by July 2007.
Vidoop's core technology is the Vidoop Dynamic Image Grid, a login tool that powers Vidoop Secure and thus myVidoop.com. The company also sells advertising space, allowing a company to place its products as images in the grid. There are currently two

37signals is a privately held web application company based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was co-founded in 1999 by Jason Fried, Carlos Segura, and Ernest Kim as a web design company. Segura left in 2000 and Kim left in 2003, leaving Fried as the only remaining founder.
Since mid-2004, the company's focus has shifted from web design to web application development. Its first commercial application was Basecamp; this was followed by Backpack, Campfire, and Highrise. It maintains two freeware web applications, Ta-Da List and Writeboard. The open source web application framework Ruby on Rails was initially created for internal use at 37signals, before being publicly released in 2004.
The company is named for the 37 radio telescope signals identified by astronomer Paul Horowitz as potential messages from extraterrestrial intelligence. In 2006, co-founder Jason Fried was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
The company's initial focus was on website redesign, including work for Panera Bread and Shopping.com. The Meetup.com website was designed by web design service, whereby a single web page would be redesigned for a

Ganz is a Canadian company best known for distributing plush animals and collectibles. More recently it is known as the manufacturer of Webkinz, the toy with an interactive virtual-reality Internet site.
The success of Webkinz Pets and other like items helped the fortunes of the Ganz family who then decided to start The Webkinz Foundation. The Webkinz Foundation is a charitable organization that focuses on supporting children's programs worldwide and provides the company with valuable marketing and tax benefits.
Founded in 1950 by Holocaust survivors Samuel Ganz and his sons Jack Ganz and Sam Ganz, it was called Ganz Bros. Toys Limited and was well known to generations of Canadians who had the products in their home. They were major carnival suppliers and manufactured many products in their own factory. A private company with headquarters just north of Toronto in Woodbridge, Ontario, it is now run by Sam and his son Howard. Ganz is known as a user of Ty's copyrighted TyTips fabric, which is on several of the older Webkinz.
Ganz produces several toy lines, such as Tubby Tummies, Webkinz, Bears, and many more.
Webkinz: The best-selling line of plush animals with a secret code that

Thomas "Tom" Joyner (born November 23, 1949) is an American radio host, host of the nationally syndicated The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and also founder of REACH Media Inc., the Tom Joyner Foundation, and BlackAmericaWeb.com.
Joyner was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Frances and Hercules L. Joyner. Tom came from an educated family: his grandfather Oscar was one of only 3,000 black physicians in the United States, taking a degree in medicine in 1909 . Both of his parents were graduates of historically black colleges, and both Tom and his brother Albert attended Tuskegee Institute, now known as Tuskegee University. Tom Joyner graduated with a degree in sociology in 1978 While a student at Tuskegee, Joyner joined the fraternity Omega Psi Phi. At first, his goal was to be a musician, and he joined a band that included his college friend Lionel Richie, but the band did not make any money and his family encouraged him to seek another way to make a living .
Joyner had been involved in college radio, and after graduation, he began his broadcasting career in Montgomery, Alabama immediately upon graduation, and worked at a number of radio stations in the South and Midwest, including

Virgil Griffith (born March 6, 1983), also known as Romanpoet, is an American hacker, known for his involvement in a 2003 lawsuit with Blackboard Inc. and his creation of WikiScanner. He has published papers on artificial life and is currently a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology. A The New York Times bio dubbed him as the Internet Man of Mystery.
Griffith was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in nearby Tuscaloosa. He graduated from the Alabama School of Math and Science in 2002, and then attended the University of Alabama, studying cognitive science in New College. He was a member of the Mallet Assembly. He transferred to Indiana University in 2004, but returned to graduate cum laude from Alabama in August 2007. Griffith is now a graduate student studying computation and neural systems. He is affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute as a visiting researcher.
Griffith has given talks at the hacker conferences Interz0ne, PhreakNIC, and HOPE. It was at Interz0ne 1 in 2002 that he met Billy Hoffman, a Georgia Tech student, who had discovered a security flaw in the campus magnetic ID card system called "BuzzCard". He and Hoffman proceeded over the next year

The European Union (EU) (English pronunciation: /ˌjʊərəˈpiːən ˈjuːnjən/) is an economic and political union of 27 member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Economic Community (EEC), formed by six countries in 1951 and 1958 respectively. In the intervening years the EU has grown in size by the accession of new member states and in power by the addition of policy areas to its remit. The Maastricht Treaty established the European Union under its current name in 1993. The latest amendment to the constitutional basis of the EU, the Treaty of Lisbon, came into force in 2009.
The EU operates through a system of supranational independent institutions and intergovernmental negotiated decisions by the member states. Important institutions of the EU include the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the European Council, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the European Central Bank. The European Parliament is elected every five years by EU citizens.
The EU has developed a single market through a standardised system of laws which apply in all member states.

Drew Curtis (born February 7, 1963) is the founder and an administrator of Fark.com, an Internet news aggregator. He is also the author of It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News in May 2007. He is a guest on WOCM's morning show The Rude Awakening Show every Tuesday.
Fark began in 1993 when Curtis was a student in England, sending links back to his friends. Curtis registered Fark.com in 1997 but did not begin posting links on the site until 1999. The first story on Fark was a news article about a fighter pilot who crashed while attempting to moon another fighter pilot. Since then, the site has become one of the most popular link dump sites on the internet with nearly 50 million pageviews a month. As of 2006 the site was getting over 2,000 link submissions every day. It was the first indie blog to earn one million dollars a year in profit and its classifieds section alone generates as much as $40,000 per year.
Although Fark is a million-dollar business, Curtis takes a yearly salary of $60,000. The rest of the money goes to the site's legal 'war chest' and to pay other expenses. Under Curtis, Fark has purposely shied away from the Web 2.0 mantra of

James "Jim" J. Cramer (born February 10, 1955) is an American television personality, a former hedge fund manager, and a best-selling author. Cramer is the host of CNBC's Mad Money and a co-founder and chairman of TheStreet.com, Inc.
Cramer married Karen Backfisch-Olufsen, a trader, in 1988, and divorced in 2009. He lives in Summit, New Jersey.
Cramer was born to Jewish parents in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. One of his first jobs was selling ice cream at Veterans Stadium during Philadelphia Phillies games. Cramer went to Springfield Township High School in Montgomery County.
Cramer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in government.
He began his involvement with journalism in college, working for The Harvard Crimson, and rising to become its president. After graduation, Cramer worked in several entry-level reporting jobs. Dating back to March 1, 1978, Cramer worked for the Tallahassee Democrat in Tallahassee, Florida, where he covered the Ted Bundy murders. The then-executive editor, Richard Oppel, says "[Cramer] was like a driving ram. He was great at getting the story." He then worked as a journalist for The Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc.
Born and raised in New York state, he took up writing software programs as a hobby in middle school, beginning with BASIC, with help from his father and a tutor (who called him a "prodigy"). In high school, he excelled in classic literature and fencing while studying at Phillips Exeter Academy.
He later attended Harvard University, majoring in computer science and psychology. In his sophomore year, he wrote a program called Facemash as a "fun" project, letting students on the college's network vote on other students' photo attractiveness. It was shut down within days, but would become a template for his writing Facebook, a program he launched from his dormitory room. With the help of friends, he took Facebook to other campuses nationwide and soon after moved to Palo Alto, California. By 2007, Zuckerberg was a billionaire at the age of 23. By 2010, Facebook had an estimated 500 million users worldwide. Zuckerberg has since been

Ancestry.com Inc., formerly The Generations Network, is a publicly traded Internet company (NASDAQ: ACOM) based in Provo, Utah, USA. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical and historical record websites focused on the U.S. and nine foreign countries, develops and markets genealogical software, and offers a wide array of genealogical related services. As of June 2012, the company provided access to more than 10 billion records, 38 million family trees, and 2 million paying subscribers.
In addition to its flagship site, Ancestry.com operates Genealogy.com, MyFamily.com, ProGenealogists, and Rootsweb.com, and owns Footnote.com, which provides images of historical records. Family Tree Maker software, developed and marketed by the company, is the largest selling genealogical software in the world.
Under its subsidiaries, Ancestry.com operates foreign sites that provide access to services and records specific to other countries in the languages of those countries. These include several countries in Europe (covered by Ancestry.com Europe S.à r.l.) as well as Australia, Canada, and China. According to the company's latest annual report,

Hrafn Þorri Þórisson studies Computer Science at Reykjavik University under the APERIO program. He has been studying intelligent systems for several years; exploring the origins, evolution and nature of creativity and how machines can be given creative abilities. The research has earned some recognition, including Iceland’s National Young Scientists’ Award and a nomination for the Icelandic Presidential Innovation Award. He carries out research at the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA). He is the founder of Iceland’s first and only A.I. association, the Icelandic Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR).

The Woofer is a dog coat which lets user play songs from his Ipod or other MP3 players on the back of their dog. Each device is handmade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Woofer has two opposing speakers that are present above the hind legs of the dog. The Woofer's clarity and high-quality sound has been proven to not be harmful to the dog by Dr. Meister of Society Hill Veterinarian Center. With two opposing speakers on top of the dog's hind legs, it is designed to be away from the dog's ears and still allow swift mobility to run and play. It has an amplifier to safely enhance sound.
The story of The Woofer starts back in 2009. The device has been designed by Matthew Baron. The Woofer is a speaker that is integrated into a dog sweater
According to the designer:"The first coat that I made was for humans. I called it the Boom Coat. I took an old tuxedo jacket and replaced the lapels with my lapels with speakers built in, then I started doing it for dogs, and it became a real opportunity."
The fitting is for dogs between 20 and 100 pounds. It is made by hand in six hours.
The Woofer is a normal dog coat with pockets for mp3 players and it features in-built speakers with technology

ESPN is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and recorded event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming. Its name derives from Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.
Founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen and Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan, it launched on September 7, 1979, under the direction of Chet Simmons, the network's President and CEO (and later the United States Football League's first commissioner). The Getty Oil Company provided funding to begin the new venture via executive Stuart Evey. John Skipper is ESPN's current president, a position he has held since January 1, 2012.
ESPN's signature telecast, SportsCenter, debuted with the network and aired its 50,000th episode on September 13, 2012. ESPN broadcasts primarily from its studios in Bristol, Connecticut. The network also operates offices in Miami; New York City; Seattle; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Los Angeles. The Los Angeles office, from which the late-night edition of SportsCenter is now broadcast, opened at L.A. Live in early 2009.
While ESPN is one of the most successful sports networks, it has not been free

FreedomWorks is a conservative non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., United States. FreedomWorks trains volunteers, assists in campaigns, and encourages them to mobilize, interacting with both fellow citizens and their political representatives.
FreedomWorks originated from a campaign called Citizens for a Sound Economy, which split in two in 2004. CSE was set up by businessman David Koch (Koch Industries). Citizens for a Sound Economy merged with Empower America in 2004 and was renamed FreedomWorks, with Dick Armey, Jack Kemp and C. Boyden Gray serving as co-chairmen, Bill Bennett focusing on school choice as a Senior Fellow, and Matt Kibbe as President and CEO. Empower America was founded in 1993 by William Bennett, former Secretary of HUD Jack Kemp, former Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, and former Representative Vin Weber. In December 2006, Steve Forbes joined the board of directors.
The ‘FreedomWorks’ name was derived from a common Armey saying: “Freedom works. Freedom is good policy and good politics.”
FreedomWorks seeks to identify itself with two schools of thought: the Austrian School of economics and public choice theory. Through public choice theory,

Small World News was inaugurated in 2005 with its first project Alive in Baghdad. In Iraq it produced weekly video packages on citizens’ daily life, but since expanded to a number of services, including audio interviews with audience participation (Alive in Gaza) and viral public access for user generated content (Alive in Tehran).
Its staff has been producing video and web journalism for 10 years including video documentaries and audio interviews from places as diverse as Iraq, Mexico, Afghanistan, and China. They have production teams in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kenya, as well as a broad array of citizen journalists, contacts, and coordinators in Mexico, Afghanistan, Honduras, Liberia, Syria, Iraq, Kenya, Gaza, and Nigeria.

Ugobe is a toy robotics company co-founded by Caleb Chung, creator of the Furby. Their first product is the Pleo, a robotic dinosaur.
Ugobe claims that the Pleo responds to human interaction and has released two product demonstration videos. Close inspection of these videos has revealed that the motion of the toy is identical during both demonstrations, despite slightly differing stimuli.
The two videos that were featured on YouTube were commenting on demonstration videos made purely for the DEMO 2006 Conference in February. DEMO is a conference at which presenters have exactly six minutes to demonstrate their new products. The demonstration video is meant to give people a taste ￢ﾀﾓ in condensed form ￢ﾀﾓ of Pleo's range of behaviors and movements. The first video featured on YouTube ￢ﾀﾓ the one on the right ￢ﾀﾓ was aired at the conference. The other video ￢ﾀﾓ the one on the left ￢ﾀﾓ is simply a backup video. Ugobe says, "In response, and on behalf of UGOBE, I want to let you know that both of the videos in the YouTube post were made for DEMO 2006." The actual Pleo product that will come to market will, indeed, be able to autonomously interact with his environment and evolve

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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970, Orange, California, United States) is the American founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet. In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world. Wired also included him in a flowchart of "internet blowhards" citing his obsession with Web 2.0.
Arrington grew up in Huntington Beach, California and Surrey, England, attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics. He went on to Stanford Law School and graduated in 1995. He practiced corporate and securities law at O’Melveny & Myers, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Arrington left the practice of law to join Real Names, which failed after raising $100M. Arrington was co-founder of Achex, an internet payments company, which was sold to First Data Corp for US$32 million and is now the back end of Western Union online. "I made enough to buy a Porsche. Not

BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 44 foreign news bureaux and has correspondents in almost every country. Since 2004, the Director of BBC News has been Helen Boaden.
The department's annual budget is £350 million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists. Through the BBC English Regions, BBC News has regional centres across England as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. All regions and nations produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.
Radio and television operations are broadcast from BBC Television Centre in West London, though are due to move to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in central London by 2013. Television Centre houses all domestic, global, and online news divisions within one main newsroom. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in

Max Rafael Levchin (Ukrainian: Максиміліан Левчин Maksymilian R. Levčyn), born on July 11, 1975 in a Jewish family, is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur widely known as one of the co-founders (along with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk) and for his role as the former chief technology officer of PayPal. Levchin is considered a member of the PayPal Mafia.
Born in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) to a Jewish family he moved to the United States under political asylum, and settled in Chicago in 1991. He attended Mather High School and then earned his bachelor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, NetMeridian Software and SponsorNet New Media.
In 1998, Levchin founded Fieldlink with John Bernard Powers (who left the company shortly thereafter) and Peter Thiel. After changing the company name to Confinity, they developed a popular payment product known as PayPal. After a merger with X.com, the combined entity was renamed PayPal Inc.
PayPal Inc. went public in February 2002, and was subsequently acquired by eBay. Levchin worked there with Peter Thiel,

Atom Entertainment is an Internet entertainment company which operates Atom Films, Shockwave.com, AddictingGames.com, and AtomUploads.com, formerly known as AddictingClips.com.
The company was formed in 2001 by the merger of Atom Corporation and Shockwave.com, Inc. Viacom acquired Atom Entertainment in August 2006 for about $200M. Popular games such as The World's Hardest Game, Stick Wars and the Impossible Quiz are hosted here.

Slingshot Labs was a media and business incubator owned by News Corp that was launched on February 13, 2008. Slingshot was separate from News Corp's Fox Interactive Media, and its mission is to build and develop new Web ventures for the parent company. The incubator was founded by some of Myspace's founding members, Josh Berman Colin DiGiaro, and was headquartered in Santa Monica, California. It was operated by Josh Berman and Diego Berdakin prior to its shutdown in 2010.
The launch of Slingshot Labs came nearly a year and a half after Myspace's primary competitor, Facebook, announced a US$10 million fund to invest in software companies that build applications for its social network. Comparisons to Facebook's fund swirled around the company's launch, but News Corp and Myspace execs did not acknowledge them. Current CEO of Myspace, Chris DeWolfe, explained to BusinessWeek, "This is my baby, my idea, and something I've wanted to do for a long time." Both DeWolfe and News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch have been involved with the company's initial stages; it was seeded by News Corp with US$15 million and 40 employees.
The company planned to develop four to five ventures per year,

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep" (reflected in the paper's web address, www.freep.com). It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, and Monroe counties.
The Free Press is also the largest city newspaper owned by Gannett, which also publishes national newspaper USA Today. The Free Press has received nine Pulitzer Prizes and four Emmy Awards. The newspaper's motto is "On Guard for 181 Years."
The newspaper was first published as the Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer on May 5, 1831. The first issues were printed on a Washington press purchased from the discontinued Oakland Chronicle of Pontiac, Michigan. It was hauled from Pontiac in a wagon over rough roads to a building at Bates and Woodbridge streets in Detroit. The press could produce 250 pages an hour, hand operated by two men. The first issues were 14 by 20 inches (360 mm × 510 mm) in size, with five columns of type. Sheldon McKnight became the first publisher with John Pitts Sheldon as editor.
In the 1850s, the paper was developed into a

The German National Library (German: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek or DNB) is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. Its task, unique in Germany, is to collect, permanently archive, comprehensively document and record bibliographically all German and German-language publications from 1913 on, foreign publications about Germany, translations of German works, and the works of German-speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945, and to make them available to the public. The German National Library maintains co-operative external relations on the national and international level. For example, it is the leading partner in developing and maintaining bibliographic rules and standards in Germany and plays a significant role in the development of international library standards. The cooperation with publishers is regulated by law since 1935 for the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig, since 1969 for the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt. Duties are shared between the facilities in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main, with each center focusing its work in specific specialty areas. A third facility, the Deutsches Musikarchiv Berlin (founded

Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村 博之, Nishimura Hiroyuki, born November 16, 1976) is the founder and a former administrator of the most accessed Japanese message board site 2channel. He currently holds a position of Director at Niwango Inc., known for its service Nico Nico Douga.
In Japan, he is usually known by his given name, Hiroyuki.
Nishimura was born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa but raised in Tokyo. He founded the company Tokyo Access in 1998 while he was at Chuo University. In May 1999, he opened 2channel while he was studying at the University of Central Arkansas. In June 2001, he founded Irregulars and Partners, Inc with Ichirō Yamamoto (handle: Kirikomi Taichō), but later left there.
Nishimura, Ichirō Yamamoto, and Yoshihiro "Yakin" Nakao, President of ZERO Co.Ltd. were the early central management members of 2channel, but Ichirō Yamamoto left the group in 2002, and Nishimura resigned from his company.
Nakao (also known by the handle FOX) is a server specialist, and has been managing most of the 2channel servers since the Neomugicha incident, a case in 2000 in which a 17-year-old posted messages threatening to hijack a bus, and then went on to kill one person in the hijacking. The event

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility.
A bureau of the United States Department of the Interior, it is that department's sole scientific agency. The USGS employs approximately 8,670 people and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The USGS also has major offices near Lakewood, Colorado (Denver Federal Center), and Menlo Park, California.
The motto of the USGS is "Science for a changing world."
Prompted by a report from the National Academy of Sciences the USGS was created by an act of Congress on March 3, 1879. It was charged with the "classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain." This task was driven by the need to inventory the vast lands added to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, commonly referred to as Vancity, is a values-based financial co-operative serving the needs of its 479,500 member-owners and their communities through 58 branches in Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Victoria and Squamish. As Canada's largest community credit union, Vancity uses its $16.1 billion in assets to help improve the financial well-being of its members while at the same time helping to develop healthy, sustainable communities.
Vancity's values-based banking model is grounded in the local economy, and uses member’s deposits to lend and invest in local businesses and organizations that create a positive economic, social and environmental impact in the community. In addition, since 1994, Vancity has distributed $221 million to members through dividends and to communities through grants and community investment initiatives.
The credit union’s primary lines of business include retail and business banking (deposit-taking and lending) and commercial mortgage lending. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Vancity’s lines of business also include foreign exchange services, life insurance services, Visa credit card services, real estate

Aberjhani is an American historian, columnist, novelist, poet, and editor. Although well known for his blog articles on literature and politics, he is perhaps best known as co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance and author of I Made My Boy Out of Poetry. The encyclopedia won a Choice Academic Title Award in 2004.
Aberjhani grew up in Savannah, Georgia. Upon graduating from Savannah High School in 1975, he studied journalism, creative writing, and the American community at a variety of colleges: Savannah State College (now University); Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida; Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota; Temple University in Philadelphia; and the New College of California in San Francisco. He completed additional studies in journalism at the Fort Benjamin Harrison School of Journalism in Indianapolis, Indiana.
He served a two-year tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force in Fairbanks, Alaska; four years in Suffolk, England; and another two years with the USAF Reserves in [[Charleston, South Carolina. He studied Equal Opportunity and Human Relations Counseling at the DEOMI Institute at Tyndale AFB, Florida.
Aberjhani, the name he assumed for publication as

AT&T Inc. (also stylized as ATT and at&t; NYSE: T, for "telephone") is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, downtown Dallas, Texas. AT&T is the largest provider both of mobile telephony and of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services. As of 2010, AT&T is the seventh largest company in the United States by total revenue, and the fourth largest non-oil company (behind Walmart, General Electric, and Bank of America). It is the third-largest company in Texas (the largest non-oil company, behind only ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, and also the largest Dallas company). As of 2011, AT&T is the 14th largest company in the world by market value, and the 9th largest non-oil company. It is also the 20th largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with over 100.7 million mobile customers.
AT&T Inc. began its existence as Southwestern Bell Corporation, one of seven Regional Bell Operating Companies created in 1983 in the divestiture of parent company AT&T Corp. due to the United States v. AT&T antitrust lawsuit. (AT&T Corp. was founded 1885 as the American Telephone and Telegraph

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster. Radio-Canada is the national French-language broadcast arm of the corporation.
Although some local stations in Canada predate CBC's founding, CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2, Première Chaîne, Espace musique and the international radio service Radio Canada International. Television operations include CBC Television, Télévision de Radio-Canada, CBC News Network, le Réseau de l'information, ARTV (part ownership), Documentary and Bold. The CBC operates services for the Canadian Arctic under the names CBC North and Radio Nord Québec. The CBC owns 20.2% of satellite radio broadcaster Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings, operator of Sirius Canada and XM Radio Canada, which airs additional CBC services including CBC Radio 3 and Bande à part.
CBC/Radio-Canada television stations are currently in the process of an over-the-air digital

The government of the United States of America is the federal government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that constitute the United States of America, as well as one capitol district, and several other territories. The federal government is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive and judicial, which powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, respectively; the powers and duties of these branches are further defined by acts of Congress, including the creation of executive departments and courts inferior to the Supreme Court.
The full name of the republic is "The United States of America". No other name appears in the Constitution, and this is the name that appears on money, in treaties, and in legal cases to which it is a party (e.g., Charles T. Schenck v. United States). The terms "Government of the United States of America" or "United States Government" are often used in official documents to represent the federal government as distinct from the states collectively. In casual conversation or writing, the term "Federal Government" is often used, and the term

ZoomInfo is a vertical search engine focused on people, companies, and the relationships among them.
Zoom Information Inc. was founded by Jonathan Stern in 2000 as Eliyon Technologies. The company’s investors include Venrock Associates and Vulcan Capital.
The site powers people searches for Amazon’s A9.com and Business Week. ZoomInfo also allows users to collaborate in the construction of its content by contributing information to their own profiles or building new ones where none exists. Their database holds 45 million profiles of business professionals and 5 million company profiles. The features of their site allow users to search based on name, company, location, vertical segments to generate leads.
The company draws around 4.5 million monthly users and generates circa $12 million in revenue from its fee-based and subscription services.
Zoominfo's competitors are sites such as BoardEx, InsideView, Spoke (website), Hoovers and InfoUSA.

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾuˈzejɾu esˈpoɾtʃi ˈklubi]) is a Brazilian football team, from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and are one of the only five clubs to have never been relegated, along with Santos, São Paulo, Flamengo and Internacional. Founded on January 2, 1921, they are only one of three clubs to have participated in every edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. Cruzeiro has been Brazilian champions twice, domestic cup champions four times (a record shared with Grêmio), and Mineiro champions 37 times. It is the only Brazilian team to have won the domestic triple crown of Brazilian football or treble, for winning the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the Copa do Brasil, and the Campeonato Mineiro in the same year, accomplishing this feat in 2003. Internationally they are the second most successful team in Brazil with seven international championships, including two Libertadores, the equivalent to Europe's Champions League. Cruzeiro has the 6th largest fan base in Brazil with around 8 million supporters, mainly in the state of Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Goiás and Federal District.
Cruzeiro is a member of Clube dos 13, a group of the leading

A Delaware Corporation with offices in Palo Alto California and Paris, France, fotopedia was founded in 2006 by Jean-Marie Hullot, former CTO of NeXT and Apple’s Applications Division. Its mission is to enable the creation of a pool of images for everyone to contribute to, discover, use and enjoy, covering all areas of human interest. Fotopedia (formerly known as fotonauts) is the first collaborative photo encyclopaedia which will deliver the world’s best tools for individuals to organize, enrich, share and collaborate with images, wherever they are stored.

InterActiveCorp (legal name: IAC/InterActiveCorp) is an American internet company with over 50 brands across 40 countries headquartered in New York City. The Chairman and Senior Executive is Barry Diller, who was previously head of Paramount Pictures, Fox Broadcasting and USA Broadcasting.
IAC was incorporated in 1986 under the name Silver King Broadcasting Company as a subsidiary of Home Shopping Network. In 1992, Silver King was spun-off to Home Shopping Network shareholders as a separately traded public company.
The company has undergone several name changes. February 1998: HSN, Inc. was renamed USA Networks, Inc. May 2002: USA Networks, Inc. was renamed USA Interactive June 2003: USA Interactive was renamed InterActiveCorp July 2004: InterActiveCorp was renamed IAC/InterActiveCorp
In August 2008, IAC spun off several of its businesses, including: Tree.com (NASDAQ: TREE), the Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster, and Interval Leisure Group (NASDAQ: IILG).
In February 2011, IAC acquired the free-to-contact dating site, OkCupid, for $50 million.
In April 2011, IAC extended the deal with Google to hand over all search advertising on Ask.com and other IAC search products to the

Randy Baer, better known by his ring and pen name RD (Real Deal) Reynolds is a former professional wrestling manager and is also the co-creator of the professional wrestling website WrestleCrap, with Merle Vincent (who died in September 2000). He has also authored three books, WrestleCrap, The Death of WCW, co-authored with Bryan Alvarez, and The WrestleCrap Book of Lists!, co-authored with Blade Braxton. He has been called "the foremost authority on the worst of professional wrestling" by the Canadian Online Explorer. He is not to be confused with another author named "RD Reynolds" who authored a book on vitamin B6 in the mid-1980s.
Baer's self-produced DVD The Worst of RD Reynolds chronicles his work in various independent wrestling promotions, most of which were in the Indianapolis area for promoters Jeff Cohen and "Diamond" Dan Garza; primarily Cohen's Championship Wrestling of America and NWA Indianapolis. Baer worked as an interviewer, commentator, manager, and booker, meaning that he wrote storylines and set up matches. Occasionally, he performed in professional wrestling matches, some of which had special stipulations. When he became a heel manager, he was forced to adopt

Time Warner Inc. (formerly AOL Time Warner) is an American multinational media corporation headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. As of mid-2010, it was the world's second largest media and entertainment conglomerate in terms of revenue (behind Disney), as well as the world's largest media conglomerate.
Two formerly separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc. and Time Inc. (along with the assets of a third company, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.), form the current Time Warner, with major operations in film, television and publishing. Among its subsidiaries are New Line Cinema, Time Inc., HBO, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW Television Network, TheWB.com, Warner Bros., Kids' WB, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Adult Swim, CNN, DC Comics, Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Castle Rock Entertainment. The company previously had telecommunications assets through Time Warner Cable and AOL, but in 2009 they were spun off from Time Warner into independent companies.
In 1972, Kinney National Company spun off its non-entertainment assets due to a financial scandal over its parking operations and renamed itself Warner Communications Inc.
It was the

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.
The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence–funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV.
Before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services: BBC1, BBC2, and ITV. The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4, along with its Welsh counterpart, was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982. After some months of test broadcasts, it began scheduled transmissions on 2 November 1982.
The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around

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Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (/ˈmɑrkoʊs muːˈliːtsəs/; born September 11, 1971), often known by his username and former military nickname "Kos" (kōz), is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, a blog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party politics in the United States. He is also a weekly columnist at the Washington, D.C. newspaper, The Hill, and a contributing columnist at Newsweek.
Moulitsas currently resides in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two children.
Moulitsas was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Salvadorian mother and Greek father. He moved with his family to El Salvador in 1976, but later returned to the Chicago area in 1980 after his family fled threats placed on their lives by communist insurgents during the Salvadoran Civil War. As an adult, he has recounted his memories of the civil war, including an incident that occurred when he was 8 years old, in which he saw communist guerrillas murdering students who had been accused of collaborating with the government.
After graduating from Schaumburg High School in Schaumburg, Illinois, he served in the U.S. Army from 1989 through 1992. He completed training at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma and fulfilled his three-year enlistment

The Tribune Company is a large American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, with ten daily newspapers and commuter tabloids including Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Baltimore Sun, Daily Press and The Morning Call, among others.
Through Tribune Broadcasting, the company operates 23 television stations, WGN America on national cable, and Chicago's WGN radio. The group's combined reach is more than 80 percent of U.S. television households. Investment interests include Food Network (31%).
Tribune Interactive, another subsidiary, manages the interactive operations of major daily newspapers such as Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times and their associated websites. Its national network sites owned with partners include CareerBuilder.com, Cars.com, Apartments.com and Topix.net. With more than 50 websites overall, Tribune Interactive ranks among the nation's leading news and information networks. The sites attract more than 20 million unique visitors per month.
Tribune Media Services provides syndicated content to print and electronic media.
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François Rabelais University (Université François-Rabelais) or University of Tours, is a public university in Tours, France. The university is named after the French writer François Rabelais, and was founded in 1969.
The university has five campuses, distributed across the city of Tours:
Each academic year is divided into two semesters. The training is organized according to European architecture through the ranks of Licence (three years: 1-6 semesters), Master (two years: 7-10 semesters), Doctorat.
Teachers may be contract teachers, lecturers, Professors from universities or business professionals.
The main areas of training are offered at the University of Tours. They can move both to the specific professional (bachelor pro, master pro, engineer) than to the world of research (Doctorat degrees in medicine, pharmacy, law, music ...).
Areas taught on different campuses affect the arts, the performing arts and culture, law, economics, management, Commerce, Literature, Linguistics, languages, integrative teaching, Humanities and Social Sciences Life, Health Sciences, Science and Technology.
Research at the University is at the forefront in the social sciences and humanities in the

Robert Bruce Spencer (born February 27, 1962) is an American author and blogger best known for Criticism of Islam and research into Islamic terrorism and jihad. He has published twelve books, including two New York Times best-selling books. In 2003, with sponsorship by David Horowitz Freedom Center, he founded and has since directed Jihad Watch, a blog which he describes as containing "...news of the international jihad, [and] commentary..." which is dedicated to "bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world, and to correcting popular misconceptions about the role of jihad and religion in modern-day conflicts". He has also co-founded Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and the Freedom Defense Initiative with blogger Pamela Geller, with whom he also co-authored a book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America.
Spencer is a practicing Melkite Greek Catholic. It is a rite of the Catholic Church whose adherents are, according to Spencer, "mostly concentrated in Lebanon and Syria, also in Jordan and the Palestinian territories." His grandparents were forced to emigrate from an area that is now part of

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American multinational electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. The company also produces consumer electronics—notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader and the Kindle Fire tablet computer—and is a major provider of cloud computing services.
Amazon has separate retail websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and China, with international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products. It is also expected to launch its websites in Poland, Brazil, Netherlands and Sweden.
Jeff Bezos incorporated the company (as Cadabra) in July 1994, and the site went online as amazon.com in 1995. The company was renamed after the Amazon River, one of the largest rivers in the world, which in turn was named after the Amazons, the legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry.
The company was founded in 1995,

Daimler AG (help·info) (German pronunciation: [ˈdaɪmlɐ aːˈɡeː]; formerly DaimlerChrysler) is a German multinational automotive corporation. Daimler AG is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. By unit sales, it is the thirteenth-largest car manufacturer and second-largest truck manufacturer in the world. In addition to automobiles, Daimler manufactures buses and provides financial services through its Daimler Financial Services arm.
The company also owns major stakes in aerospace group EADS and Japanese truck maker Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation.
Daimler produces cars and trucks under the brands of Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, Smart, Freightliner and many others.
Daimler AG is a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and engines, which dates back more than a century.
An Agreement of Mutual Interest was signed on May 1, 1924 between Benz & Cie (founded 1883) of Karl Benz and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (founded 1890) of Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach.
Both companies continued to manufacture their separate automobile and internal combustion engine brands until, on June 28, 1926, when Benz & Cie. and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft AG formally

IdiomaX LLC is a translation software company that has been offering translation products and services for the international market since 1996.
IdiomaX was established in 1996. Its team of specialists in natural language and applied computing creates software products that go beyond word-by-word translation, instead recognizing grammatical rule, patterns, and idiomatic expressions to deliver more accurate language translations.
In 1998, after launching the IdiomaX Translator, IdiomaX developed a dedicated PC Translator for Garzanti (between Italian and the main EU languages) that was distributed directly by Garzanti in Italian bookstores for several years.
In 2005, IdiomaX started to sell on the Italian market with the IdiomaX brand “Traduttore Plurilingue IdiomaX” distributed by DLI Multimedia.
Starting from 2001, IdiomaX distributed its full range of products internationally via the website www.idiomax.com and via on-line distributors.

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, ( /ˈroʊlɪŋ/) OBE, FRSL (born 31 July 1965), pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies to become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a popular series of films, in which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts as well as maintaining creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment. Rowling conceived the idea for the series on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990.
Rowling has led a "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on social security to multi-millionaire status within five years. As of March 2011, when its latest world billionaires list was published, Forbes estimated Rowling's net worth to be US$1 billion. The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £560 million ($798 million), ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in the United Kingdom. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007, and Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year,

Sean Paul Lockhart (born in Lewiston, Idaho on October 31, 1986) is an American model, film actor and gay pornographic actor. For the latter, he uses his stage name Brent Corrigan and has played roles in gay porn films notably with Cobra Video and Pink Bird Media, but has also made some films with Active Duty and Jet Set Men. As for his appearances with Falcon Studios particularly in The Velvet Mafia series, he has used the stage name Fox Rider instead. He has also appeared in several nonpornographic films as well using his birth name Sean Paul Lockhart trying to reposition himself as a more serious mainstream actor rather than just a porn star and has released no new pornographic films since 2010. Such gay-themed and indie films include Judas Kiss, Sister Mary, Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!, Welcome to New York, and others. In 2011 he starred as "Ricky" in the musical Chillerama directed by Tim Sullivan in the segment "I Was A Teenage Werebear". In 2011 Sean Paul Lockhart won the Rising Star Award at the Philadelphia QFest Festival. In 2012, he announced his involvement in production of an indie film titled Truth to be directed by Rob Moretti. He has also recorded an album

Utherverse Inc. (also known as Utherverse Digital Inc.) is an internet networking company focusing on bringing together Web 2.0 technology, 3D virtual environments, and social situations. It was formed to enable the creation of large multi-player online communities.
Founded in 2002, Utherverse is the product of the creative collaboration of Ray Schwartz and Brian Shuster. The two advocated bringing the world together on a much greater scale than was currently available. The first creation hosted on the Utherworld platform was their Redlight Center, based on the real life Amsterdam. Red Light Center (commonly referred to as RLC) has an adult theme which is the basis for much of the content.
Utherverse released its second "world" in what it now refers to as the "Utherverse", which is called "Virtual Vancouver" which is a less adult themed environment than RLC. Since this release, it has also released a third world which is its first privately owned third party world known as "Rude Virtual". More recently, the groundwork for many more worlds has been laid with the inception of its Virtual World Web (VWW) addition.
Utherverse released the Virtual World Web (VWW) platform in early 2010.

Aberystwyth University (Welsh: Prifysgol Aberystwyth) is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. In 2006 the university had over 12,000 students in seventeen academic departments.
Founded in 1872 as University College Wales, Aberystwyth became a founder member of the University of Wales in 1894 and changed its name to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. In the mid 1990s, the university again changed its name to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. On 1 September 2007, the University of Wales ceased to be a federal university and Aberystwyth became independent again. However, students enrolled from the 2009/2010 academic year onwards, or whose first year of study was in the 2008/2009 academic year, can choose to receive their degree from the University of Wales or Aberystwyth University.
The National Student Survey named Aberystwyth fifth in the UK in 2006 and tenth in 2007 for overall student satisfaction. In The Times Good University Guide 2008, it shared with five other UK universities the highest score for "student satisfaction" and ranked 39th out of 113 overall. The Guardian

Incando Corporation is the company behind a revolutionary new internet service called Pickle. Pickle was designed for a new generation of personal media sharing that is fast approaching. Pickle enables you to easily organize and share ALL your media (photos and videos) from ALL your devices (camera and mobile phone), but with a revolutionary twist. In addition to sharing on Pickle, you can post individual items or entire channels of content anywhere you want -- MySpace, your blog, wherever. And you can update channels on the fly with dispatches from your cell phone. With Pickle, you can broadcast life's moments straight from your mobile to virtually any website.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcasting corporation headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
The BBC is a semi-autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary. Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts; the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament.
Outside the UK, the BBC World Service has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently by television and online. Though sharing some of the facilities of the domestic services, particularly for news and current affairs output, the

The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments. The department is headed by the United States Secretary of Labor. Hilda Solis is the current Secretary of Labor. Seth Harris is the current Deputy Secretary of Labor.
The purpose of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights. In carrying out this mission, the Department of Labor administers and enforces more than 180 federal laws. These mandates and the regulations that implement them cover many workplace activities for about 10 million employers and 125 million workers.
The Department’s headquarters is housed in the Frances Perkins Building, named in honor of Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor from 1933–1945 and the first female cabinet secretary in U.S. history.
The U.S.

The Hearst Corporation is an American mass media group based in the Hearst Tower, Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media. The Hearst family is involved in the ownership and management of the company.
Hearst is one of the largest diversified communications companies in the world. Its major interests include 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, and more than 300 magazines around the world, including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations through Hearst Television Inc. which reach a combined 18% of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including A+E Networks, and ESPN Inc.; as well as business publishing, Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.
Under William Randolph Hearst's will, a common board of thirteen trustees (its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders) administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns (and selects the 18-member board of) the Hearst

Q-Sensei pools and processes a vast amount of information from the Internet and makes it better accessible to its users with its patented Search and Presentation engine. Search results are displayed clearly and comprehensively while cross references with rich content enable the user to gain more insight and understand search results in a larger context.

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus near Palo Alto. It is situated in the northwestern Silicon Valley, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco.
Leland Stanford, Governor and Senator of California and leading railroad tycoon, and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford founded the university in 1891 in honor of their son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday. The university was established as a coeducational and nondenominational institution. Tuition was free until the 1930s. The university struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would become known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, and was one of the original four ARPANET nodes (precursor to

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search) and for a variety of other services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo! websites every month. Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages."
Yahoo! Inc. was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On July 16, 2012, former Google executive, Marissa Mayer, was named as Yahoo CEO and President, effective July 17. Yahoo has averaged one CEO a year for the last five years as it struggles to reinvent itself for the next era of the Internet.
In January 1994, Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University when they created a website named "Jerry's guide to the

Canonical Ltd. is a private company founded (and funded) by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu Linux and related projects. Canonical employs staff in more than 30 countries and maintains offices in London, Boston, Taipei, Montreal, Shanghai, São Paulo and the Isle of Man.
Canonical Ltd. has created and continues to back several projects. Principally these are free/open-source software (FOSS) or tools designed to improve collaboration between free software developers and contributors.
In a Guardian interview in May 2008, Mark Shuttleworth said that the Canonical business model was service provision and explained that Canonical was not yet close to profitability. Canonical also claimed it will wait for the business to turn into a profitable one within another 3 to 5 years. He regarded Canonical as positioning itself as demand for services related to free software rose. This strategy has been compared to Red Hat's business strategies in the 1990s. However, in an early 2009 New York Times article, Shuttleworth said that Canonical's revenue was "creeping" towards $30 million, the company's break-even point.
In 2007,

LifeStageMedia, inc. develops and operates meaningful websites associeated with life stage events. They help people, plan, record, and celebrate major life events such as a birth of a baby, a wedding, extended travel, and other significant life events, or pay tribute to loved ones who have passed away.

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company located in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo is the world's largest gaming company by revenue. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.
Abandoning previous ventures, Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company with a market value of over US$85 billion. Nintendo of America is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team.
The name Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven". As of October 18, 2010, Nintendo has sold over 565 million hardware units and 3.4 billion software units.
Nintendo was founded as a card company in late 1889, originally named Nintendo Koppai. Based in Kyoto, Japan, the business produced and marketed a playing card game called Hanafuda. The handmade cards soon became popular, and Yamauchi hired assistants to mass produce cards to

Pudding Media is a San Jose-based startup building a revolutionary
technology that opens new advertising real estate, enabling brands to
display contextually relevant information and offers in real time to
consumers based on keywords spoken in their calls. Pudding Media’s
platform allows any communications provider – mobile carrier, Internet
telephony service, even Web publisher – to offer new ad-supported
calling plans.

NBCUniversal Media, LLC (formerly known as NBC Universal, Inc.) is an American media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base. The company owns and operates American television networks, numerous cable channels, and a group of local stations in the United States, as well as motion picture companies, several television production companies, and branded theme parks.
NBC Universal was formed in May 2004 by the merger of General Electric's NBC with Vivendi's Vivendi Universal Entertainment. GE and US cable TV operator Comcast announced a buyout agreement for the company on December 3, 2009. Following regulatory approvals, the transaction completed on January 28, 2011. Comcast now owns 51% of NBC Universal while GE owns 49%.
Originally, the NBC Universal logo was a combination of the NBC peacock logo and the Universal Studios globe and text. The logo was redesigned by Wolff Olins in January 2011 to reflect the new Comcast ownership.
NBC Universal is headquartered in the Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company is one of two successor companies to MCA

Raidió Teilifís Éireann (Irish pronunciation: [ˈradʲo ˈtʲɛlʲəfʲiːʃ ˈeːrʲən] ( listen); Radio [and] Television of Ireland; abbreviated as RTÉ) is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Republic of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on 1 January 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on 31 December 1961, making it one of the oldest continuously operating public service broadcasters in the world.
RTÉ is financed by a television licence fee and through advertising. Some RTÉ services are only funded by advertising, while other RTÉ services are only funded by the licence fee. RTÉ is a statutory body, run by a board appointed by the Government of Ireland. General management of the organisation is in the hands of the Executive Board headed by the Director-General. RTÉ is regulated by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Radio Éireann, RTÉ's predecessor and at the time a section of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, was one of 23 founding organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950.
Broadcasting in Ireland began in 1926 with 2RN in Dublin. From that date

Cycology specialises in providing online services for cyclists.
These include:
cycolo.gy - the social network for cyclists
buy.cycolo.gy - an online store for performance cyclists
cycl.it - a link-shortening service for cyclists

Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog. In 2008 he launched the now successful Stack Overflow programmer Q&A site in collaboration with Jeff Atwood. Using the Stack Exchange software product which powers Stack Overflow, The Stack Exchange Network now hosts over 85 Q&A sites.
Spolsky grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and lived there until he was 15. He then moved with his family to Jerusalem, Israel, where he attended high school and did his military service as a paratrooper. He was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton in Upper Galilee. In 1987, he returned to the United States to attend college. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania for a year before transferring to Yale University, where he was a member of Pierson College and graduated in 1991 with a BS summa cum laude in Computer Science.
Spolsky started working at Microsoft in 1991 as a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team, where he designed Excel Basic and

Tamkang University (traditional Chinese: 淡江大學; simplified Chinese: 淡江大学; Tongyong Pinyin: Dànjiang Dàsyúe; Hanyu Pinyin: Dànjiang Dàxúe; Wade–Giles: Tàn-chiang Ta-hsüeh; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tām-kang-tōa-ha̍k; abbreviated as TKU) is a private Taiwanese university located in Tamsui District, New Taipei City. Founded in 1950 as a junior college of English literature, the college has expanded into a full university with 11 colleges today.
Tamkang University is well known throughout Taiwan and is usually recognized as the oldest and best private university in the country. It is ranked 9th by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan and in Asia's top 50th. Around 29,000 students of fifty nationalities form the diverse student body of the school. The school also has partnerships with over a hundred Universities in 28 countries (known as "Sister Universities").
This university is noted for its scenic campus.
Established in 1950 as a Junior College of English, Tamkang first offered a two-year program and then a three-year program. It was not until 1958 that Tamkang, after it was reinstituted as a College of Arts and Sciences, awarded bachelor's degrees to its graduates. In 1980, Tamkang was elevated to

Bluefire Systems Ltd was started by George Black and Simon Kinsella in 2002 to create sophisticated websites as business solutions for small companies. Unfortunately only one person understood what this meant so the intrepid BFS boys were forced to pursue their dreams of creating a global company and so invented Phuser instead.

Eravita, Inc. was formed to build and house the Story of My Life
website, partner with the non-profit Story of My Life Foundation which
is entrusted with funds to maintain and assure continued access to
people’s Stories in perpetuity, and to offer additional services and
programs to help people write their Stories, and enrich them using
modern multi-media such as pictures, video, audio files and more.

Visivo is an early stage, well funded startup that is pioneering the next generation of video communication experience that is embedded into web pages and social networks and seamlessly works across all devices - from cell phone, game consoles to computers.

Midasplayer.com (www.midasplayer.com)
is the first truly international skill-gaming platform, and the largest
in Europe. Players log on from all over the world. Midasplayer.com is
available in eight languages including English, German, Swedish,
French, and Italian, and users can play in pounds, euros, Swedish
kronor, or dollars. With headquarters in London, Midasplayer.com has
its operations centre and cutting-edge technical development team in
Stockholm, Sweden.

DreamWorks Studios, officially DW II Distribution Co., LLC, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses totalling more than $100 million each.
DreamWorks began in 1994 as an ambitious attempt by media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (forming the SKG present on the bottom of the DreamWorks logo) to create a new Hollywood studio of which they own 72%. In December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. The sale was completed in February 2006. In 2008, DreamWorks announced its intention to end its partnership with Paramount and signed a $1.5 billion deal to produce films with India's Reliance ADA Group. Reliance provided $325M of equity to fund recreating Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio as an independent entity. Clark Hallren, former Managing Director of the Entertainment Industries group of J.P. Morgan Securities and Alan J. Levine of J.P. Morgan Entertainment Advisors led the Reliance team in

ITV is a major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, its legal name has been Channel 3, the number 3 having no real meaning other than to distinguish it from BBC One, BBC Two and Channel 4. In part, the number 3 was assigned as televisions would usually be tuned so that the regional ITV station would be on the third button, the other stations being allocated to the number within their name.
ITV is a network of television channels operating regional television services as well as sharing programmes between each other to be displayed on the entire network. In recent years, several of these companies have merged so that currently, the fifteen franchises are currently in the hands of three companies.
ITV is to be distinguished from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004 and which holds the Channel 3 broadcasting licences in England, Wales, southern Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel

Kevin Rose (born Robert Kevin Rose, February 21, 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. He is currently a venture partner at Google.
Rose was born in Redding, California and lived in Oregon before his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he spent most of his childhood. He became an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America. Rose transferred to Vo-Tech High School in Las Vegas in 1992. He then attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas, majored in computer science but dropped out in 1998. He worked for two dot-com startups through CMGI.
Rose was hired as a production assistant for The Screen Savers. He began appearing on-air in "Dark Tip" segments and on Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, where he provided information on developing computing activities. He became a regular co-host when Leo Laporte left TechTV on March 31, 2004. On March 25, 2004, Comcast's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV, which resulted in a round of layoffs. Rose moved to Los Angeles to stay with G4. On May 22, 2005, Rose reached an agreement with G4 that

Secure Wireless Transfers Corporation (SWT) is a leader in mobile
commerce solutions enabling consumers to transfer money and make
purchases through mobile phones while “on the go”. SWT provides the
easiest, most secure, and most cost-effective means of mobile payment
available today. The company’s KushCash service, powered by SWT,
allows instant, easily accessible cash transactions from anywhere
through the use of its patent-pending User Interface and end-to-end
payment processing system. Consumers can now send and receive money and
make purchases more securely and inexpensively through its end-to-end
authentication and payment processing system. The system uses SMS text
messaging for instant notifications providing users with updated,
timely account history and transaction alerts. SWT was founded
in 2005 in Aliso Viejo (Orange County), California,

Yandex (Russian: Яндекс) (NASDAQ: YNDX) is a Russian Internet company which operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 60% market share in that country. It also develops a number of Internet-based services and products. Yandex ranked as the 5th largest search engine worldwide, based on information from Comscore.com, with more than 150 million searches per day as of April 2012, and more than 25.5 million visitors (all company's services) daily as of May 2012. Yandex' revenue grew over the last few years. The company's mission is to provide answers to any questions users have or think about(explicit or implicit).
The Yandex.ru home page has been rated as the most popular website in Russia. Yandex attracts more than 56 million users from all over the world. The web site also operates in Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Ukraine and Turkey. Another company, Yandex Labs, is a wholly owned division of Yandex that is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
According to research studies conducted by TNS, FOM, and Comcon, Yandex is the largest resource and largest search engine in the Russian Internet market, based on audience reach. Yandex currently has a market share of over 64% in

AdventNet, the Internet Management Infrastructure Company
is the worldwide leader in providing Web and Java based network
management software for OEMs, service providers, integrators and
ISVs. Ease of use, scalability, reliability and extensive customization
are the hallmarks of AdventNet products. AdventNet products are
powering solutions in many fast growing market segments that include
e-commerce application management, optical networking, cable modem,
DSL, storage management, web hosting and management service providers
(MSPs). AdventNet enables superior solutions with rapid time to
market advantages and all the benefits of new Internet technologies.

Babylon is the leading provider of single-click information access
solutions. In 1997 the company introduced its flagship product - a
desktop application that delivers translations, conversions and
information in a single click. In 2001 Babylon successfully changed its
business model and began selling its product both online to private
users and directly to corporations, reaching hundreds of thousands of
paying users and large international corporations worldwide. Babylon
has now leveraged its patented technology in a server-based solution
that provides business customers a unified platform for instant
retrieval of vital information from various data sources. The company
now has over 26 million registered users of its software products,
growing at a rate of 350,000 new installs monthly.

CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS) is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network, and continues to operate a radio network and a portfolio of large market television and radio stations. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. It is the second largest broadcaster in the world behind the BBC. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of the company's logo. It has also been called the "Tiffany Network," which alludes to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of its founder William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBS's first demonstrations of color television, which were held in a former Tiffany & Co. building in New York City in 1950.
The network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc., a collection of 16 radio stations that was bought by William S. Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paley's guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States and then one of the big three American broadcast television networks. In 1974, CBS dropped its

Cuil Inc. (pronounced “cool”) is a startup company that is pioneering a new approach to Search. The company was founded by Tom, Anna and Russell. Their offices are located on a quiet street in Menlo Park, Ca. If you'd like to learn more about Cuil or the people behind it, please get in touch.

The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse. Inside the artificial biomes are plants that are collected from all around the world. The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit, located 1.25 mi (2 kilometres) from the town of St Blazey and 5 kilometres (3 mi) from the larger town of St Austell, Cornwall.
The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The domes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The first dome emulates a tropical environment, and the second a Mediterranean environment.
The project was conceived by Tim Smit and designed by architect Nicholas Grimshaw and engineering firm Anthony Hunt and Associates (now part of Sinclair Knight Merz). Davis Langdon carried out the project management, Sir Robert McAlpine and Alfred McAlpine did the construction and MERO designed and built the biomes. Land Use Consultants led the masterplan and landscape design. The project took 2½ years to construct and opened to the public on 17

Tesco plc (LSE: TSCO) is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues (after Wal-Mart and Carrefour) and the second-largest measured by profits (after Wal-Mart). It has stores in 14 countries across Asia, Europe and North America and is the grocery market leader in the UK (where it has a market share of around 30%), Malaysia, the Republic of Ireland and Thailand.
The company was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen as a group of market stalls. The Tesco name first appeared in 1924, after Cohen purchased a shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and combined those initials with the first two letters of his surname, and the first Tesco store opened in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Middlesex. His business expanded rapidly, and by 1939 he had over 100 Tesco stores across the country. Originally a UK-focused grocery retailer, since the early 1990s Tesco has increasingly diversified geographically and into areas such as the retailing of books, clothing, electronics, furniture, petrol and software; financial services; telecoms and internet services; DVD rental; and music downloads.

Dhiraagu (Dhivehi: ދިރާގު) is the first Maldivian telecommunications company, which was established in 1988. The company remains the nation's largest telecom service provider and No.1 brand. It was the only company licensed to provide internet and GSM services until 2004 and 2005 respectively and continues to be the sole landline operator. Major services provided by the company includes landline telephony, Internet (including dial-up access and broadband, satellite and ADSL services), and 3.5G. Dhiraagu is also the only total communication solution provider in the Maldives and the only mobile operator with 100% coverage in all inhabited islands and resorts. Despite competition on both mobile and internet, Dhiraagu remains to be the leading telecom service provider with 80% market share and the preferred brand for over 300,000 people.
The name "Dhiraagu" is an acronym for Dhivehi Raajjeygé Gulhun (Dhivehi: ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ގުޅުން)-Literally: Connection of Maldives.
Dhiraagu maintains one of the world's longest microwave links over water. This 65 km link across the equator connects Fuvahmulah and Gaafu Dhaalu - and therefore Gaafu Alifu atoll.
Though Dhiraagu is the first Maldivian

Bonnier AB (also the Bonnier Group) is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 17 different countries. It is controlled by the Bonnier family.
The company was started in 1804 by the German Gerhard Bonnier in Copenhagen, Denmark, when Bonnier published his first book, Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier. Gerhard's sons later moved to Sweden. The Bonnier book publishing companies in Sweden that are part of book publishing house Bonnierförlagen now include Albert Bonniers förlag, Wahlström & Widstrand, Forum, and Bonnier Carlsen, as well as several other book publishers and imprints in Sweden. Bonnier Tidskrifter publishes magazines, including Veckans Affärer, Damernas Värld, Amelia, Sköna Hem, Teknikens Värld, Resume, nearly a dozen crossword magazines, and the tablet magazine C Mode, among many others. Other subsidiaries include Sweden's commercial TV network TV4 and C More Entertainment; movie theater chain SF Bio and film production companies Svensk Filmindustri and Sonet Film; daily newspapers Dagens Nyheter, Expressen, and Sydsvenskan; business daily Dagens Industri; and medical journal Dagens Medicin.
In Denmark, operations include magazine

Cal Henderson (born Callum James Henderson-Begg on January 17, 1981) is a British computer programmer and author based in San Francisco. He was educated at Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College.
He's best known for co-owning and developing the online creative community B3ta with Denise Wilton and Rob Manuel; being the chief software architect for the photo-sharing application Flickr (originally working for Ludicorp and then Yahoo) and writing the book Building Scalable Web Sites for O'Reilly Media. He's also worked for EMAP and is responsible for writing City Creator among many other websites, services and desktop applications.
He is color blind, and has worked on applications to make the web more accessible to the color blind.
Cal's personal website currently describes him as Glitch Engineer.

Chris blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at [chrisbrogan.com]. Skilled in new media creation (blogging, podcasting, videoblogging) as well as social media community building (through sites like Facebook, Ning, Twitter, and others), his strength is in connecting passionate people together for business, collaboration, and networking.

Founded in 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen, Connected Ventures, LLC, an operating business of IAC,
operates online content and retail properties, including
CollegeHumor.com, Vimeo.com, BustedTees.com, and Defunker.com.
Connected Ventures is based in New York City.

Julia Allison (born February 28, 1981) is an American journalist, television commentator, and co-creator of lifecasting portal NonSociety.com. A Georgetown University alumna, Allison is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago.
Upon graduating from college, she moved to New York and began working as a columnist for amNewYork, after which she became editor-at-large for Star magazine. In 2007, she went on to join Time Out New York as a columnist, a position held until Summer 2009. Her freelance writing has featured in many magazines, including Cosmopolitan and Men's Health.
She has appeared as a guest commentator on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News, plus Headline News, CNN, and MTV, and co-hosts New York Nonstop lifestyle show TMI Weekly.
Her work includes speaking engagements on new media and marketing, as well as assisting various companies as brand spokesperson. She appears on the Bravo reality show Miss Advised.
Allison attended Georgetown University, majoring in political science. While in college, she penned a dating column for the campus newspaper, The Hoya. During her studies she worked as a legislative correspondent for Illinois Republican

Timothy Brooks Westergren (born December 21, 1965 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), is a co-founder of Pandora Radio.
Timothy Westergren was born on December 21, 1965 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in political science. Following his graduation, Westergren spent twenty years working as a record producer and composer (working as a nanny in between jobs), devoting the majority of his time to emerging artists and independent labels.
In 1999 he started Pandora Media along with two co-founders: Will Glaser and Jon Kraft. The Oakland, Calif., company went public in 2011, reporting $138 million in revenue that fiscal year.
As an early project, Westergren and Glaser created the Music Genome Project, a mathematical algorithm to organize music. The idea was marketed by Pandora Media. He along with the other developers patented the Music Genome Project, the software uses a mathematical algorithm to predict a person's musical taste based on a small musical sampling, and is covered by United States Patent No. 7,003,515.
As the company's chief strategy officer, Westergren spends the majority of his time traveling the nation and gathering feedback from

Media General, Inc. is a media company based in the Southeastern United States.
The company was formed in 1940 when Richmond, Virginia's two newspapers, the Times-Dispatch and News Leader, merged to form Richmond Newspapers. In 1969, it was renamed "Media General", as the company's media properties grew and diversified.
In 1982 the company acquired The William B. Tanner Company (previously known as Pepper-Tanner) a commercial radio jingle production company headquartered in Memphis which competed with Dallas-based TM Productions, Century 21 Productions, JAM Creative Productions and PAMS. It was later divested in 1988.
In 1996, Media General acquired Park Communications, formerly owned by the media entrepreneur Roy H. Park.
Although Media General is headquartered in Richmond, Tampa is its largest market (#13).
Many of the television stations have a similar branding, similar slogans, and a similar appearance.
This chain is not associated with the similar sounding Media News Group.
*(flagship of the Kansas Broadcasting System, or KBS for short)
On May 17, 2012, it was announced that investment company Berkshire Hathaway will be acquiring Media General's newspaper division (excluding

Something Simpler is a leading-edge company charting a new course in the
next-generation of the Web: a web that is personalized just for you; a
web that understands your needs and wants; and a web that allows the
things you’re interested in to find you, rather than the other way
round.And we’re dedicated to earning your trust and respect while being
productive netizens: by
safeguarding your data and your rights; by contributing to advances in
the state of the medium; and by actively advocating openness and
collaboration.

In March of 2005, New Horizon Interactive set out to create an online world for kids where they could safely play games, have fun and interact. As parents and Internet specialists, New Horizon's owners wanted to develop a place they and other adults around the world would feel comfortable letting their own children and grandchildren visit. On August 1, the company announced it had joined the Walt Disney Company in a business partnership designed to provide Club Penguin with access to unprecedented resources and a wide range of exciting and unique development opportunities.

Crackle (formerly known as Grouper) is a digital network and studio, featuring commercially supported streaming video content in Flash Video format. It is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and its content consists primarily of Sony's library of films and television shows. Crackle provides its content through a web syndication network, including YouTube, Hulu, AOL, MySpace, and mobile service providers.
In July 2007, Sony purchased the online video site Grouper for $65 million. In the same month, Sony announced that Grouper would be re-branded and re-purposed as Crackle, a multi-platform video-entertainment network and studio, featuring full-length movies and television shows from Sony’s library, as well as producing original content made just for the Internet. In October 2008, Sony moved Crackle to its Culver City base.
In April 2009, Crackle blocked access to anyone not in the United States of America. On June 8, 2010, Crackle announced it had opened up access to selected content on the site to viewers in the UK, Canada and Australia. In March 2011, Crackle launched on PS3, Roku boxes, Sony Blu-ray players and Bravia TVs. and in April 2011, Crackle launched a mobile app for

Monte Cook is an American professional table-top role-playing game designer and writer, best known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons. He was married to Sue Weinlein Cook, although they are now divorced.
Cook has been a professional game designer since 1988, working primarily on role-playing games. Much of his early work was for Iron Crown Enterprises as an editor and writer for the Rolemaster and Champions lines. Cook worked for Iron Crown Enterprises for four years; two as a freelancer and two as a full-time designer. During this period, he attracted fan and critical attention with the popular multi-genre setting Dark Space.
Cook began working for TSR in 1992 as a freelancer, "writing a whole slew of stuff for the old Marvel game that never came out because the game got canceled". Joining the TSR team, Cook designed Dungeons & Dragons modules such as Labyrinth of Madness (1995) and A Paladin in Hell (1998), and dozens of supplements to the Planescape line including The Planewalker's Handbook (1996) and Dead Gods (1998). Cook also designed the conspiracy game Dark•Matter (1999). After TSR was purchased by Wizards of the Coast, Cook became a Senior Designer, and was part of the

The University of Windsor (U of W or UWindsor) is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's southernmost university. It has a student population of approximately 15,000 full-time and part-time undergraduate students and over 1000 graduate students. The University of Windsor has graduated more than 100,000 alumni since its founding.
The University of Windsor has nine faculties, including the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Engineering, Odette School of Business, the Faculty of Graduate Studies, the Faculty of Human Kinetics, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Nursing, and the Faculty of Science. Through its various faculties and independent schools, Windsor's primary research interests focus on automotive, environmental, and social justice research, yet it has increasingly began focusing on health, natural science, and entrepreneurship research.
Recently, the University of Windsor has established a School of Medicine in partnership with the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry from the University of Western Ontario. Currently, the University of Windsor is constructing a $112-million

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a member-supported unit of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York which studies birds and other wildlife. It is housed in the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity in Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary. Approximately 250 scientists, professors, staff, and students work in a variety of programs devoted to the Lab's mission: interpreting and conserving the Earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. Work at the Lab is supported primarily by its 45,000 members. The Cornell Lab issues two quarterly publications, Living Bird magazine and the BirdScope newsletter, and manages numerous citizen-science projects and websites, including the Webby Award-winning All About Birds.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology was founded by Arthur A. "Doc" Allen who lobbied for creation of the country's first graduate program in ornithology, established at Cornell University in 1915. Initially, the Lab of Ornithology was housed in the university's entomology and limnology department.
Birder/businessman Lyman Stuart, donors, and landowners purchased or donated farmland in 1954 which was set aside for the sanctuary.

Channel 5 is a television network that broadcasts in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1997, it was the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue network to launch (after BBC One, BBC Two, ITV and Channel 4). The station was branded as Five between 2002 and 2011. After Richard Desmond purchased the station from the RTL Group on 23 July 2010, he announced plans to invest more money in programming and return to the name Channel 5 with immediate effect, prior to an official relaunch on 14 February 2011 which was also applied to 5 News.
The new on-screen look for Channel 5 went live on 14 February 2011 with new idents, on-screen DOG and website address. The relaunch has also seen investment in a range of new programming with the debut of the nightly entertainment show, OK! TV. Audience figures for the relaunch were boosted with increased viewing figures for the main 5 News bulletins and improved figures for OK! TV in the 18:30 slot over its predecessor Live from Studio Five.
Channel 5 is a general entertainment channel, with internally commissioned shows such as The Gadget Show and Fifth Gear appearing alongside numerous international programmes such as CSI: Crime Scene

GlobalMotion's mission is to collaboratively describe and aggregate the world's interesting locations. Their vision is that this can best be done by combining the benefits of maps and geo-tagged content with a Wiki platform, to empower a global community of users to collaboratively add content, and edit and improve existing content.

hakia is building the Web's new "meaning-based" (semantic) search engine with the sole purpose of improving search relevancy and interactivity, pushing the current boundaries of Web search. The benefits to the end user are search efficiency, richness of information, and time savings. The basic promise is to bring search results by meaning match - similar to the human brain's cognitive skills - rather than by the mere occurrence (or popularity) of search terms. hakia's new technology is a radical departure from the conventional indexing approach, because indexing has severe limitations to handle full-scale semantic search.

iLike was an online service that allowed users to download and share music. The website made use of a sidebar that is used with Apple's iTunes or Microsoft's Windows Media Player. The program and sidebar are not required in order to use the site but allow for ease in discovering new artists. Although the website is still in a somewhat beta version, it is open to anyone. The site attracted around half a million users in the first four months after it was launched. According to the latest statements by the company, over 60 million consumers registered to use iLike either directly on iLike.com or using the apps built by iLike for third-party social networks such as Facebook. iLike also built a "post-once publish-everywhere" dashboard for artists – major label artists as well as independent artists. It now receives an average of 150,000 visitors per day.
In October 2007, iLike announced that it was teaming up with Billboard to create new charts that display the week’s top 25 “most added” songs to personal music libraries.
On August 19, 2009 it was announced that MySpace was to acquire iLike.
As of February 7th, 2012 the iLike website has been closed, and instead redirects users to a

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The IRS is responsible for collecting taxes and the interpretation and enforcement of the Internal Revenue Code.
The IRS has its headquarters in Washington, D.C., and does most of its computer programming in Maryland. It currently operates five service centers around the country (in Austin, TX; Cincinnati, OH; Fresno, CA; Kansas City, MO; and Ogden, UT), at which returns sent by mail are received. These centers do the actual tax processing; different types of returns are processed at the various centers (with some centers processing individual returns and others processing business returns). The IRS also operates three computer centers around the country (in Detroit, Michigan; Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Memphis, Tennessee).
In July 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and Congress created the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue and enacted a temporary income tax to pay war expenses (see Revenue Act of 1862). The position

Logo is an American digital cable-television channel owned by Viacom's Music and Logo Group division. Launched in June 2005, the channel's programs are geared towards the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
The advertiser-supported channel struck carriage deals prior to its launch date with DirecTV, Charter Communications, Adelphia, Cablevision, Time Warner Cable of New York City, and RCN. A deal with Comcast was reached after the launch date. Dish Network has added the channel as an option for their HDTV package. Logo has partnered with CBS News to provide news briefs and has developed a relationship with LPI Media, publisher of The Advocate, Out, and The Out Traveler magazines. Logo replaced VH1 Mega Hits in some markets when it was launched. On December 11, 2006, MTV Networks and Time Warner Cable announced an agreement to expand its distribution of Logo to additional markets. Logo became available on the Dish Network in May 2009.
Logo was available in an estimated 41 million homes as of September 2010 and is in the 25 largest media markets in the United States.
The channel was founded by former MTV Executive, Matt Farber. Its first President, Brian Graden,

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.
Microsoft was established to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in its largest acquisition to date.
As of 2012, Microsoft is market dominant in both the PC operating system and office suite markets (the latter with Microsoft

Nick Denton, born August 24, 1966, is a British journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com. For years after starting Gawker Media, the online publishing network, in 2002, Nick Denton ran the company out of his apartment, in SoHo.
Denton grew up in Hampstead, the son of eminent economist Geoffrey R. Denton and his Hungarian-born wife Marika Marton. He was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford where he studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. He also became the editor of the university magazine, Isis. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. He co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called All That Glitters. He was one of the founders of a social networking site called First Tuesday and co-founded Moreover Technologies with David Galbraith and Angus Bankes, schoolmates from UCS. Denton owns nine websites, the most popular being Gizmodo - a lifestyle website about that centers around gadgets and consumer electronics. Gizmodo pulls in nearly six million visitors a month.
Denton was featured in the Sunday

Neil James Alexander Sloane (born October 10, 1939) is a British-U.S. mathematician. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing. Sloane is best known for being the creator and maintainer of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
He studied at Cornell University under Nick DeClaris, Frank Rosenblatt, Frederick Jelinek and Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, receiving his Ph.D. in 1967. His doctoral dissertation was titled Lengths of Cycle Times in Random Neural Networks. Sloane joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1968. He became an AT&T Fellow in 1998. He is also an IEEE Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
His Erdős number is 2, since he coauthored Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups with John Horton Conway. He has also collaborated with at least seven other Erdős coauthors. He is a winner of the Chauvenet Prize. In 2005 Sloane received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. In 2008 he received the Mathematical Association of America David P. Robbins award.
Besides mathematics, he loves rock climbing and has authored two rock-climbing guides to New Jersey.

Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. (born March 23, 1978), better known as Perez Hilton (a play on "Paris Hilton"), is an American blogger and television personality. His blog, Perezhilton.com (formerly PageSixSixSix.com), is known for posts covering gossip items about celebrities. He is also known for posting tabloid photographs over which he has added his own captions or "doodles." His blog has garnered negative attention for its attitude, its former "outing" of alleged closeted celebrities and its role in the increasing coverage of celebrities in all forms of media.
Hilton was born in Miami, Florida to parents from Cuba. He graduated in 1996 from Miami's Belen Jesuit Preparatory School and received his BFA in drama from New York University. In 2002, Hilton moved to Los Angeles, California, where he currently resides.
After graduation from New York University in 2000, and before beginning his blogging career, Hilton attempted a career as an actor. He briefly worked as a media relations assistant for LGBT rights organization GLAAD, was a freelance writer for gay publications, worked as a receptionist for NYC gay events club Urban Outings, and was briefly the managing editor of Instinct,

PowerReviews is an enterprise solutions company that provides customer
reviews and social merchandising solutions to multi-channel retailers,
driving higher conversion and increased purchase satisfaction.
PowerReviews’ patent-pending PowerTags™ technology captures customer
opinions in their own words, making reviews more useful for shoppers,
empowering them to make more informed and confident purchase decisions.
Its customers include Staples, ToysRus, the Wine Enthusiast, NetShops,
REI, Ritz Camera and over 100 more. With the introduction of
Buzzillions.com, the company has entered the consumer shopping portal
market, leveraging its tag-based technology to introduce social
navigation and affinity recommendations into the shopping research
process for consumers. Based in Millbrae, California, PowerReviews is a
privately held company with funding from leading venture capital firms
Menlo Ventures and Draper Richards.

Mahindra Satyam formerly Satyam Computer Services, is an Indian IT services company based in Hyderabad, India. It was founded in 1987 by B Ramalinga Raju. Mahindra Satyam is a part of the Mahindra Group which is one of the top 10 industrial firms based in India. The company offers consulting and information technology (IT) services spanning various sectors, and is listed on the Pink Sheets, the National Stock Exchange (India) and Bombay Stock Exchange (India). In June 2009, the company unveiled its new brand identity “Mahindra Satyam” subsequent to its takeover by the Mahindra Group’s IT arm, Tech Mahindra on April 13, 2009.
Mahindra Satyam provides services in the following areas:
Mahindra Satyam headquartered in Hyderabad, India has development centres and/or regional offices in USA, Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Egypt, UAE, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia.
Mahindra Satyam is the largest IT employer of Hyderabad with its 4 campuses:
The company currently has eight campuses in Hyderabad.
Asia Pacific: India-Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Hyderabad (Headquarter), Pune, Vishakapatnam, Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Nagpur.
Australia, China, Hong Kong,

Sulake (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsulɑke], is a Finnish social entertainment company.
In March 2011, Sulake reported that revenue was up more than 20 percent over 2009, resulting in sales of €56.2 million ($78.7 million). Sulake’s EBITDA in 2010 totaled €5.4 million ($7.6 million, 9.5 percent of revenue) and thus significantly improved from the previous year (€0.6 or $0.8 million). Net profit was €1.6 million ($2.3 million). Sulake has also been playing an active role in assisting the police in investigations connected to the theft of online furniture.
In February 2012, it was announced that Sulake will be consolidating some of its manual processes and local operations. In showing the door to 25% of their workforce, Sulake will also close all of their 11 country offices according to the report by Finnish publication Dome.fi.
In June 2012, Sulake received negative press for ongoing sexual behavior allegations. Channel 4 news identified that Sulake was allowing users to post pornographic and violent messages - despite the fact that Habbo is targeted at young teenagers. On 13 June 2012, one of the main shareholders, 3i, which held 16 per cent of shares, declared it was pulling out of

Gruner + Jahr GmbH & Co. KG is the largest European printing and publishing firm. Its headquarters is in Hamburg, Germany.
Originally founded on August 1, 1948 as the Henri Nannen publishing house, Gruner + Jahr was created in 1965 from a merger by acquisition, by publishers John Jahr Sr. and Gerd Bucerius joining the printing firm of Richard Gruner. In 1969, Richard Gruner retired, and thanks to the entrepreneurship of Reinhard Mohn, Bertelsmann acquired 25% of the ownership. Over the next fifteen years, the firm grew by expansion, acquisition (publishers Kindler & Schiermeier) and merger (Spiegel Verlag and Motor-Presse Verlag). By 1976, Bertelsmann owned a 74.9% stake, and the Hamburg publishing family Jahr owned 25.1%, a balance which has been maintained through 2007.
In 1978, Gruner + Jahr became the first German publishing house to expand into other European and International markets. Over the next twenty years, publishing houses in France, the USA, and Spain were purchased, and a number of new magazines were started in Germany including Impulse, Schöner Essen, and Gala.
In 2005, Gruner + Jahr exited the U.S. magazine business, selling its women's magazine portfolio to the

The corporation IAC Search & Media (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) is a wholly owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ symbol: IACI). Its headquarters are located in the city of Oakland, California, with other offices throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia.
IAC Search & Media was founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California by David Warthen, Chief technical officer and veteran software developer, and by Garrett Gruener, a venture capitalist at Alta Partners and the founder of Virtual Microsystems.
IAC Search and Media provides worldwide information retrieval products through a set of Web sites, portals and downloadable applications. IAC Search and Media's search-based portal brands include:
IAC Search & Media is a parent company of the "Ask.com", division and search engine of the IAC Search & Media. The company division and the search engine shares a same name, "Ask.com".
IAC Search & Media’s software includes spyware, such products are:

SAPO (Portuguese for toad), Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses, is a brand and subsidiary company of the Portugal Telecom Group. It is a Portuguese internet service provider that started as a search engine when founded in 1995.
SAPO was created on September 4, 1995 at the Agrupamento de Escolas de Montemor-o-Velho by seven members of the Computer Science Center of the University of Aveiro. The name was derived from the acronym of the service, S.A.P.O (Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses Online). This acronym corresponds to the Portuguese word for toad.
Later, in September 1998, Saber & Lazer - Informática e Comunicação S.A. bought SAPO from Navegante. With Saber & Lazer, SAPO launched new services; free e-mail, a virtual shopping and some new features for the search engine.
Still in that year, due to increasing traffic SAPO and Telepac signed an agreement, with 'Telepac' becoming their new internet service provider.
In September 1999, PT Multimédia acquired 74,9% of Saber e Lazer. And in March 2000, SAPO was assigned to PTM.com, with the objective of joining all internet projects under only one company.
After some improvements in infrastructures and accesses, finally in June 2002

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is an American media company best known as the publisher of its namesake, The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has served as Chairman of the Board since 1997. It is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The New York Times, published on September 18, 1851, stated: "We publish today the first issue of the New-York Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite number of years to come."
The company also owns the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, and several related media properties, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com, and About.com.
Since 1967, the company has been publicly traded and listed on the New York Stock Exchange by the symbol NYT. While it offers two kinds of shares of its stock, Class A and Class B, Class B shares are not publicly traded. The Class B shares provide a mechanism by which the descendants of Adolph Ochs, who purchased The New York Times newspaper in 1896, maintain control of the company by holding nearly 90 percent of this

The United Nations (abbreviated UN in English, and ONU in French and Spanish), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.
There are 193 member states, including every internationally recognized sovereign state in the world but Vatican City. From its offices around the world, the UN and its specialized agencies decide on substantive and administrative issues in regular meetings held throughout the year. The organization has six principal organs: the General Assembly (the main deliberative assembly); the Security Council (for deciding certain resolutions for peace and security); the Economic and Social Council (for assisting in promoting international economic and social cooperation and development); the Secretariat (for providing studies, information, and facilities needed by the UN); the

The Internet continues to transform the way we do business. It is evolving in complexity and size, generating rapid growth in consumer numbers and online merchants. Keeping pace with this growth and capitalizing on new sales and revenue opportunities is an ongoing challenge. Saturn Media is a “behind-the-scenes” company that empowers companies to maximize their online business results.Saturn Media believes that success is achieved through knowledge and partnership. They have accumulated extensive know-how and experience on the "what, when and how" of successful development and marketing online. They know what products and services are crucial to achieving success and pass this information onto customers and partners using strategic new technologies, business solutions and services. Through 3 major service divisions - Web Development, Online Marketing and Search Engine Marketing, Saturn Media empowers companies to generate and maximize revenue from online traffic.

The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture created on December 1, 1994, to improve the health and well-being of Americans. CNPP promotes dietary guidance by linking scientific research to the nutritional needs of the American public.
The creation of the Center came at a time when the American public was becoming increasingly aware of the importance of diet, yet was receiving conflicting nutrition messages. The Center, therefore, serves as a touchstone where the public is assured that the nutrition guidance they receive is based on sound research and analysis.
The Center reports to the Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services. The staff of the Center is composed primarily of nutritionists, nutrition scientists, dietitians, economists, and policy experts, all of whom were chosen for their expertise. Dr. Rajen Anand is the current Executive Director of the Center. The Deputy Director is Dr. Robert C. Post.
CNPP carries out its mission by (1) advancing and promoting food and nutrition guidance for all Americans; (2) assessing diet quality; and (3) advancing consumer, nutrition, and food

Danny Yee is best known for his large collection of book reviews on a great diversity of subjects. Starting in 1992 via email, in 1993 via Usenet, and especially with their subsequent publication on the World Wide Web, Yee's mostly self-published reviews are widely consulted by readers evaluating book titles.
Yee's reviews are frequently syndicated by the popular Slashdot website, generally for reviews of books covering programming and technical topics. Examples include:
Outside of online discussion forums, Yee's reviews are cited in academic articles and printed books, both for their content and as an illustration of the effect of internet distribution on modes of criticism and communication. For example, Critical Pasts discusses the social effect of Yee's reviews; in a similar vein The Art of Assessment treats Yee's work as a case study. Books such as Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing find Yee's review prominent enough to feature in laudatory prefactory notes of later editions.
Yee has also published many of his reviews in printed journals and newsletters such as Linux Journal, Policy, Reports of the National Center for Science Education, and SAGE-AU's journal SAGE

Jacob "Jake" Kaufman (also known as virt) (born April 3, 1981) is an American video game music composer. After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to a port of Q*Bert. He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administer it. His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a full-time freelance composer by 2005. Since then he has worked on several big-name projects such as Contra 4 and Red Faction: Guerrilla.
Jake Kaufman was born in America on April 3, 1981. Kaufman dropped out of high school, with what he describes as "a total lack of work ethic and no concept of timeliness or organization". He spent the next few years composing arrangements and remixes of video game music under the alias "virt". In 2000, Kaufman broke into the video game industry as a composer; his first work was the Game Boy Color port of Q*Bert. Over the next few years, he composed the music to several

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a business data provider and was created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters is headquartered at 3 Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, United States. The Woodbridge Company, a holding company for the Thomson family of Canada, owns 53% of the group, which operates in 100 countries, and has 60,000 employees. Thomson Reuters was ranked as Canada's "leading corporate brand" in the 2010 Interbrand Best Canadian Brands ranking. Thomson Reuters operates in two divisions: Professional and Financial & Risk.
The Company was founded by Roy Thomson in 1934 in Ontario as the publisher of The Timmins Daily Press. In 1953 Thomson acquired the Scotsman newspaper and moved to Scotland the following year. He consolidated his media position in Scotland in 1957 when he won the franchise for Scottish Television. In 1959 he bought the Kemsley Group, a purchase that eventually gave him control of the Sunday Times. He separately acquired the Times in 1967. He moved into the airline business in 1965, when he acquired Britannia Airways and into oil and gas exploration in 1971 when he participated in a consortium to

The World’s first all-in-one Web 2.0 Community On-Line Advertising Portal - more choices, more control and more information.

The world’s first Web 2.0 all-in-one wiki community portal puts you in the driving seat. Built for the community, this new user-friendly, wiki-based 2.0 portal allows the user to place free advertising pages in a matter of seconds. It’s simple to use, but has the technology that provides users with the tools to raise ad profiles and search engine rankings.

People are passionate about controlling the choices they have. The web is full of complicated and confusing log-in screens, forms, applications, approvals and user panels, specifically controlled and regulated by the site developers. The creators of this exciting portal have eliminated the complicated and unnecessary ho-hum of the Internet and so have made a simple but very effective end-user solution.

Twenty-four months in the making, the whynotAD 2.0 Internet portal offers you enormous advantages. Users have a much greater choice of service with better and more targeted results. Advertising of any sort can be placed on the portal in almost a few seconds. Users have the ability to add various categories and thus give the advertising more relevance to a particular category or field.

Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (born 17 October 1984), alias anakata, is a Swedish computer specialist, known as the former co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. He has also created the tracker software Hypercube (open source software under no specific license) which was used to run The Pirate Bay web site and tracker.
Parts of an interview with Svartholm commenting on the May 2006 police raid of The Pirate Bay are featured in Good Copy Bad Copy and Steal This Film.
On 31 January 2008, The Pirate Bay operators — Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström (CEO of The Pirate Bay's former ISP) — were charged with "promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws". The trial began on 16 February 2009. On 17 April 2009, Sunde and his co-defendants were found to be guilty of "assisting in making copyright content available" in the Stockholm district court (tingsrätten). Each defendant was sentenced to one year in prison and they were ordered to pay damages of 30 million SEK (approximately €3,390,317 or US$4,222,980), to be apportioned between the four defendants.

Clifford Alan Pickover (born 1957) is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science fiction, and is employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York.
He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from Yale University's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, where he conducted research on X-ray scattering and protein structure. Pickover graduated first in his class from Franklin and Marshall College, after completing the four-year undergraduate program in three years.
He joined IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1982, as a member of the speech synthesis group and later worked on the design-automation workstations. For much of his career, Pickover has published technical articles in the areas of scientific visualization, computer art, and recreational mathematics. Pickover is still employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he is the editor of the IBM Journal of Research and Development.
He is currently an associate editor for the scientific journal Computers and Graphics and is an editorial board member for Odyssey and Leonardo. He is also the Brain-Strain columnist for Odyssey

GigaOM is a Web 2.0 blog started by Om Malik and published by Giga Omni Media, Inc. in San Francisco, California. According to the company website it has a monthly global audience of 4 million. It is among the top 50 blogs worldwide by Technorati Rank, and is listed on CNet's Blog 100 list. In May 2010, GigaOm was named Finalist in Lead411's list of the “2010 Hottest San Francisco Companies”.
It offers Web 2.0 news, analysis and opinions on startups, new technologies, broadband and online games. According to GigaOM, the site's readership includes a worldwide following of technology industry leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs. In June 2006, Malik left his day job to work on GigaOM full-time.
It has also organized conferences such as GigaOM's Mobilize 09, NewTeeVee Live, and Structure 09, drawing presenters such as Sanjay Jha and Andy Rubin
GigaOM integrates a number of other blogs and services into its network. These include:
GigaOM averages over 4 million unique readers monthly.

Sugar
Publishing is a San Francisco based company which publishes a network
of blogs aimed at women's interests including Fashion (fabsugar.com),
Pop culture (popsugar.com), and cooking (yumsugar.com) among others.

Cocky Boys is an award-winning producer of gay internet pornography. Cocky Boys originated in Beverly Hills, California, though its current headquarters are located in New York City.
The studio was founded by Kyle Majors in 2008. Going from relative obscurity at their inception, Cocky Boys has become one the most popular gay porn sites on the web. In 2009, CockyBoys was honoree of the Grabby Awards inaugural category, "Best Web-Based Porn Site". Adult performers Jesse Santana and Wolf Hudson were among the first to forego traditional gay adult DVD by signing on as exclusives with the Web-based studio. Hudson made his directorial debut as the studios first director. CockyBoys inked a deal with Euro Media Distribution for its initial move into the DVD market in late 2009. Euro Media now manages the Cocky Boys brand and has created and released several DVDs of the previously web-only content including "Horns and Halos," "Born to Fuck," and "No Pain No Gain." CockyBoys said its new direction in shooting style is focused more on the dominant and submissive dynamic, where each scene will feature one obviously cocky top and a willing bottom. New scenes under this new management began

HubPages is the leading online publishing ecosystem with easy-to-use
publishing tools, a vibrant author community and underlying
revenue-maximizing infrastructure. HubPages' mission is to provide the most
rewarding online publishing experience. HubPages authors earn money through
publishing their hubs (content-rich Web pages) and earn recognition
among their peers through the community-wide HubScores ranking system. The
HubPages ecosystem provides search engine optimization infrastructure which
drives traffic to the hubs and enables authors to earn revenue from
industry-standard advertising vehicles such as Google AdSense, Commission
Junction and the Amazon affiliate program. All of this is provided free to
HubPages authors in an open online community.

Murty BVNS is a bookseller, publisher, BOTB Indexer, software consultant in personal and professional productivity tools specializing in Virtual Working Environments. He has vast experience as freelancer working with different publishers abroad since 1999. He is from business family , owns Sri Swathi Books and Stationery, Rajahmundry representing Rajahmundry Booksellers and Publishers Association for more than a decade as director in Chamber of Commerce, Rajahmundry.

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. Founded in 1995, eBay is one of the notable success stories of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. eBay expanded from its original "set-time" auction format to include "Buy It Now" standard shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); online money transfers (via PayPal) and other services.
The online auction website was founded as AuctionWeb in San Jose, California, on September 5, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar (born on June 21, 1967) as part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus. One of the first items sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to

Kayak is an online travel site created by the founders of Expedia,
Orbitz, and Travelocity to establish a leadership position in online
travel search. Kayak enables consumers to search for cheap flights www.kayak.com, hotels www.kayak.com/hotels, rental cars www.kayak.com/cars, cruises www.kayak.com/cruises, and travel deals www.kayak.com/deals. Kayak's goal is to help consumers find and navigate the wealth of travel information available on the Web.

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.
Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Bacon, one of six children, was born and raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Ruth Hilda (née Holmes; 1916–1991), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years. At 16, in 1975, Bacon won a full scholarship to and attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell

Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California.
Netscape's web browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. The usage share of Netscape had fallen from over 90-percent in the mid 1990s to less than one-percent by the end of 2006.
Netscape is credited with developing the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) for securing online communication, which is still widely used, as well as JavaScript, the most widely used language for client-side scripting of web pages.
Netscape stock traded from 1995 until 1999 when it was acquired by AOL in a pooling-of-interests transaction ultimately worth US$10 billion. Shortly before its acquisition by AOL, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization to coordinate future development of its product. The Mozilla Organization rewrote the entire browser's source code based on the Gecko rendering

«Predict» - one of the most extraordinary bands from Latvia, who attract the attention of their eccentricity. Gnashing of overloaded guitars, heavy bass drive, thundering drums, accompanied by interesting vocals - this combination makes «Predict» striking phenomenon in Latvian rock music.
«Predict» was formed in early 2004 in Riga, Latvia.
From the begining the band was playing melodic pop-rock with a sense of romance in their music and lyrics. But eventually as some of the guys where replaced, different musical tastes came together to transform their music into what «Predict» became now.
Band experimenting, bringing in rock music classic sound and electronic elements. In recent years, the band's music became more severe.
Their music fits any occasion, no matter whether you spin their record at home or at the night club, still the most amazing experience is their live performance. Each show is different and filled with energy and drive, all their affectations, facial expressions, hatred and love - all this mixed together make an indescribable aura of musicians, reserving an unforgettable impression.
Band filmed two videos for their songs and recorded an album called «Pulsar».

Rightmove plc (LSE: RMV) is a British-based company that runs www.rightmove.co.uk, an online real estate portal. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The Company was created in 2000 as a joint venture between four of the UK's largest property agents: Halifax, Countrywide plc, Royal & Sun Alliance, & Connells under the name Rightmove.co.uk Limited. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in March 2006 at which time it became Rightmove plc.
In 2007 it bought 67% of Holiday Lettings Limited.
In May 2008, HBOS, one of the founding investors, sold its stake in Rightmove.
Rightmove makes money from listing estate agents on its website. Individuals selling property privately (i.e. directly without an agent) are prohibited from advertising on the site. Each month, Rightmove release a House Price Index, illustrating any changes in the asking prices of house throughout England and Wales. Rightmove also lists overseas properties for sale and to let.

SK Group (Korean: SK그룹, 에스케이그룹) is the third largest conglomerate (Chaebol) in South Korea. The SK Group is composed of 92 subsidiary and affiliate companies that share the SK brand and culture. It changed its name from Sunkyoung Group (Korean: 선경그룹) to SK Group in 1997. SK Holdings ranked 72nd in the 2009 Fortune Global 500. SK Group has more than 30,000 employees who work from 113 offices worldwide. While its largest businesses are primarily involved in the chemical, petroleum and energy industries, it also has South Korea's largest wireless mobile phone service provider, SK Telecom, and provides services in construction, shipping, marketing, local telephone, high-speed Internet, and wireless broadband service WiBro. SK has recently further broadened its range of business to semiconductors, merging Hynix into SK Hynix.
As with many other Chaebols SK Group's chairmanship was 'inherited' from father to son: from its founder the late Chey John-hyun to its present chairman Chey Tae-won (eldest son). Chey Tae-won is married to the daughter of the former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo. In May 2008, he was given a three-year suspended prison sentence for a US$1.2 billion accounting

TagWorld is an Internet start-up competing directly with MySpace. It advertises greater customization than MySpace, and tagging support for most of its content. Tagworld has a feature of being able to upload 1 GB of music, pictures and videos to the site for later playback from anywhere with an internet connection.
Some other features include blogging, uploading pictures and videos, and seeing who has viewed a users page.
The web site launched November 2005. By May 2006, it had 1.6 million registered users, and by June 2006, it had passed the 2m users mark.
TagWorld is made mostly by using Web 2.0 and Ajax techniques.
TagWorld is a privately held company based in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in July 2005.
TagWorld is a blogging website similar to MySpace. As such it includes standard features:
Furthermore, TagWorld also includes some features not present or different to competitors:
Special features (usually Flash-based) that can be easily customized and imported from TagWorldWidgets.com (an official site) directly into TagWorld, or unofficial fan-based sites using HTML codes. Examples of widgets include:

The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 400,000 and says 61 percent of its web site readers are between 18 and 44 years old. Since 2007, the organization has been publishing satirical news audios and videos online, as the "Onion News Network". Web traffic on theonion.com amounts to some 7.5 million unique visitors per month.
The Onion's articles comment on current events, both real and fictional. It parodies such traditional newspaper features as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes on a traditional newspaper layout with an AP-style editorial voice. Much of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy and by playing on commonly used phrases, as in the headline "Drugs Win Drug War."
A second part of the newspaper is a non-satirical entertainment section called The A.V. Club that features interviews and reviews of various newly released media, as well as other weekly features. The print

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, also known as the Australian Government, Commonwealth Government or Federal Government, is the administrative authority of Australia. The Commonwealth of Australia, a federal constitutional monarchy under a parliamentary democracy, was formed in 1901 as a result of an agreement among six self-governing British colonies, which became the six states. The terms of this agreement are embodied in the Australian Constitution, which was drawn up at a Constitutional Convention and ratified by the people of the colonies at referendums. The structure of the Australian Government may be examined in light of two distinct concepts, namely federalism and the separation of powers into executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. Separation of powers is implied from the structure of the Constitution which breaks down the branches of government into separate chapters.
Section 1 of the Australian Constitution creates a democratic legislature, the bicameral Parliament of Australia which consists of the Queen and two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Section 51 of the Constitution provides for the Commonwealth

John Buckman is founder of Magnatune, a Berkeley, California-based record label he founded in 2003 and which is known for its commercial application of Creative Commons licensing and overtly artist-friendly business practices. Buckman's methods include forming non-exclusive agreements with musicians, sharing profits equally with them, and allowing them to retain full rights to their own music. This approach is sometimes referred to as "fair trade music." Since founding Magnatune, Buckman has signed more than 250 recording artists across multiple genres.
In August 2006, he launched the for-profit corporation BookMooch, an online community for the exchange of used books, which—in combination with his work with Magnatune—has established Buckman as a prominent figure in the Free Culture movement. In February 2007, he was elected to the board of advisors of the Open Rights Group. In September 2007, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and in February 2010 he was appointed Chairman of the Board.
In 1994, Buckman and his ex-wife Jan Hanford founded Lyris Technologies. Buckman was CEO and primary programmer of Lyris' product line: Lyris ListServer,

Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a United States company based in San Francisco that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was founded by Danny Hillis in July, 2005, and operated in stealth mode until 2007. Metaweb was acquired by Google in July, 2010. Although Metaweb no longer exists as a separate corporate entity, Freebase and its associated website freebase.com continue to be provided as an open database under Metaweb's original CC-BY licensing terms.
On March 14, 2006, Metaweb received $15 million in funding. Investors included: Benchmark Capital, Millennium Technology Ventures, and Omidyar Network. Kevin Harvey of Benchmark Capital is a member of Metaweb's board of directors. On January 15, 2008, Metaweb announced a $42.5 million Series B round led by Goldman Sachs and Benchmark Capital.
On July 16, 2010, Google acquired Metaweb for an undisclosed sum.

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden are a national art museum in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was established in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection also includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Brown Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile ever created by Alexander Calder.
The Gallery's campus includes the original neoclassical West Building designed by John Russell Pope, which is linked underground to the modern East Building, designed by I. M. Pei, and the 6.1-acre (25,000 m) Sculpture Garden.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency of the federal government of the United States with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) and is part of the Department of Defense (DoD). In addition, NGA is a key component of the United States Intelligence Community.
NGA headquarters is located in Springfield, Virginia and operates major facilities in the St. Louis, Missouri area, as well as support and liaison offices worldwide. The NGA was headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland until 2011, when NGA consolidated many of its regional activities as part of the BRAC into a new campus near Ft. Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia. The NGA campus, at 2.3 million square feet (214,000 m²), is the third-largest government building in the Washington Metropolitan Area, and its atrium is spacious enough to hold the Statue of Liberty. Its budget is classified.
The NGA was credited by White House and military officials with providing critical information in support of Operation Neptune's Spear on May 2, 2011,

Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Portland, Oregon and its surrounding metropolitan area. Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's City of Books is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown and occupies a full city block between NW 10th and 11th Avenues and between W. Burnside and NW Couch Streets. It contains over 68,000 square feet (6,300 m), about 1.6 acres of retail floor space.
The inventory for its retail and online sales is over four million new, used, rare and out-of-print books. Powell's buys around 3000 used books a day.
Powell's was founded by Walter Powell in 1971. His son, Michael Powell, had started a bookstore in Chicago, Illinois, in 1970 which specialized in used, rare, and discounted books, primarily of an academic and scholarly nature. In 1979, Michael Powell joined his father in Portland, right after his father lost its lease; within a year, they found the location that became its current headquarters. Michael bought the bookstore from his father in 1982.
In 1984, Powell's opened its first branch store, in a suburban shopping center named

Trusted Opinion is a free online community for sharing ratings and
recommendations between trusted individuals. Instead of going the route of many other
online media sellers and reviewers where reviews are aggregated and
averaged across the whole user base, Trusted Opinion weighs the
opinions of people in one’s social network highest, and gradually
diminishes the weight of others’ opinions as the degrees of separation
increase.

Glasgow University Union (GUU) is one of the largest and oldest students' unions in the UK, serving students and alumni of the University of Glasgow since 1885.
The GUU organises social affairs for its members, provides catering and entertainment and generally seeks to enhance the experience of its members during their time at the University of Glasgow. Students are eligible to become members for free at any point throughout their University career and alumni may become Life Members by applying to the Board of Management.
Students at the university instituted the idea of a union building in 1885 to help promote social interaction on campus. The union's formation was driven by members of Glasgow University Dialectic Society, the Glasgow University Medico-Chirurgical Society and the Glasgow University Athletic Club. The same group formed a Students’ Representative Council in 1886 to raise funds for the building and procured the sum of £5000 from Dr John McIntyre of Odiham, Hampshire.
In 1889 the Glasgow University Students' Representative Council obtained statutory recognition under the Act of 1889 and in 1890 they managed to raise sufficient funds to build the union.
The union was

Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American philosopher, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. From an early age he has been interested in philosophy. Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. Most of his philosophical work has focused on epistemology, the theory of knowledge.
He has been involved with various online encyclopedia projects. He is the former editor-in-chief of Nupedia, chief organizer (2001–2002) of its successor, Wikipedia, and founding editor-in-chief of Citizendium. From his position at Nupedia, he assembled the process for article development. Sanger proposed implementing a wiki, which led directly to the creation of Wikipedia. Initially Wikipedia was a complementary project for Nupedia. He was Wikipedia's early community leader and established many of its original policies. He spearheaded an alternative wiki-based project, Citizendium.
Sanger left Wikipedia in 2002, and has since been critical of the project. He articulated that despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility due

Nokia Oyj (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnokiɑ], English /ˈnɒkiə/) is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland. Its principal products are mobile telephones and portable IT devices. It also offers Internet services including applications, games, music, media and messaging through its Ovi platform, and free-of-charge digital map information and navigation services through its wholly owned subsidiary Navteq. Nokia has a joint venture with Siemens, Nokia Siemens Networks, which provides telecommunications network equipment and services.
Nokia has around 122,000 employees across 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries and annual revenues of around €38 billion. As of 2012 it is the world's second-largest mobile phone maker by unit sales (after Samsung), with a global market share of 22.5% in the first quarter. Nokia is a public limited-liability company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. It is the world's 143rd-largest company measured by 2011 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500.
Nokia was the world's largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012. However,

The Reason Foundation is an American libertarian research organization founded in 1968 that also publishes the magazine Reason. Based in Los Angeles, it is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that, like other think tanks, produces papers and studies to support a particular set of values. According to its web site, they are "the values of individual freedom and choice, limited government, and market-friendly policies."
Reason Foundation's policy research areas include: air traffic control, American domestic monetary policy, school choice, eminent domain, government reform, housing, land use, immigration, privatization, public-private partnerships, urban traffic and congestion, transportation, industrial hemp, medical marijuana, police raids and militarization, free trade, globalization and telecommunications. Affiliated projects include Drew Carey's Reason TV video website, UrbanFutures and NewEnvironmentalism.org. Reason Foundation staff also regularly contribute to the Out of Control Policy Blog.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and The Wall Street Journal editorial board have strongly endorsed the Foundation. Friedman said, "Reason Foundation's tolerance, civility,

Truphone is a mobile network that operates internationally. It has headquarters in London, and offices in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal.
The company's main product is its GSM service, Truphone, a SIM based mobile service which offers customers standard local rates rather than roaming rates in countries where the company has partnerships with local operators.
The current list of countries where Truphone customers pay only local rates for calls, texts and data are:
The service is not limited to the countries where Truphone has established local networks however, and the service works in and provides discounted roaming in over 220 countries.
Truphone (a trading name of Truphone Ltd, formerly Software Cellular Network Ltd) was founded in 2006 by James Tagg, Alexander Straub and Alistair Campbell.
The company re-launched as Tru in December 2010, although reverted back to Truphone in the summer of 2012.
The company's core business focus is Truphone (launched as Truphone Local Anywhere in January 2010), a GSM SIM-based mobile service which charges customers standard local rates rather than roaming rates in countries where the

The Story of My Life Foundation was launched in 2006 as a USA 501(c)(3) public benefit,
non-for-profit entity, whose purpose is to secure, store, & make available the
Stories of peoples’ lives Forever.
The Story of My Life Foundation team is a group that believes that every person
is a unique individual with Stories, thoughts, and a full life lived.

Zemble.com is the social networking website that helps you interact with your friends through the power of text messaging. You can text message large groups of friends from your phone by sending
just one text message, and it goes out to the whole group. Zemble has developed a super secret algorithm that allows you to choose if
you want to respond to the entire group or just the person who sent you
the text.

5min is a place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to share their knowledge. It is a website that allows its users to create instructional videos as well as view other videos that have been created.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Aliph is a leading developer of mobile audio products that deliver the best user experience in any environment. The company was founded in 1999 by Alexander Asseily and Hosain Rahman, who met as Stanford undergrads and shared a belief that creating a noise-free environment was critical to improve mobile communications and a vital step towards voice being the dominant interface for mobile devices. Since 2002, Aliph's technology has been optimized for DARPA to maximize communications clarity in the most hostile conditions.

Based in Bangalore, India, InstaColl aims to develop and provide
software and services that will transform the Internet into a personal
medium for direct communication and interaction. InstaColl's
collaboration solutions provide businesses secure, online working
relationships with key customers and partners, allowing dispersed
stakeholders to reduce time-to-decision and problem-resolution by
responding in real time to critical incidents and opportunities.

Léo Gordon Laporte (/ləˈpɔrt/; born November 29, 1956 in Manhattan, New York City) is an Emmy Award winning American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur.
Laporte studied Chinese history at Yale University before dropping out in his junior year to pursue his career in radio broadcasting, where his early radio names were Dave Allen and Dan Hayes. He began his association with computers with his first home PC, an Atari 400. Laporte said he purchased his first Macintosh in 1984. He operated one of the first Macintosh-only bulletin board systems, MacQueue, from 1985 to 1988.
Laporte has worked on technology-related broadcasting projects, including Dvorak On Computers in January 1991 (co-hosted with computer pundit John C. Dvorak), and Laporte On Computers on KGO Radio and KSFO in San Francisco. Laporte also hosted Internet! on PBS, and The Personal Computing Show on CNBC. In 1997, he earned an Emmy Award for his work on MSNBC's The Site, where he created the motion capture character Dev Null.
In 1998, he created and co-hosted The Screen Savers and the original version of Call for Help on the cable and satellite network ZDTV (later TechTV). Laporte left The Screen Savers in

Maddox is the pen name of George Ouzounian, an American humorist, satirist, Internet personality, and author. He gained fame on the Internet in the early 2000s for his opinion-oriented website, The Best Page in the Universe, which he still maintains. His first book, The Alphabet of Manliness (2006), became a New York Times bestseller. He says that his pen name comes from the 1980s anime Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01. He is a graduate of Woods Cross High School in Woods Cross, Utah; he also attended the University of Utah, but he does not hold a degree.
Maddox started The Best Page in the Universe in 1997. The majority of the content is satirical. Maddox reported in 2006 that the site's online store earned enough for him to "stay above water." Maddox is reported to have worked as a programmer for a telemarketing company until 2004.
On June 6, 2006, Maddox appeared at the San Diego Comic Con with his comic book, The Best Comic in the Universe.
Maddox's first book, The Alphabet of Manliness, was published in 2006 and reached number one on the Amazon.com sales chart. The book is illustrated and has a chapter-length entry for each letter in the English alphabet regarding a "manly" topic

Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American webcomic author and former NASA roboticist as well as a programmer, best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. He and the webcomic have developed a cult following, and he is one of a small but growing group of professional webcomic artists.
Munroe was a fan of the funny pages from an early age, starting off with Calvin and Hobbes. After graduating from the Chesterfield County Mathematics and Science High School at Clover Hill: A Renaissance Program, he graduated from Christopher Newport University in 2006 with a degree in physics. Munroe worked as an independent contractor for NASA at the Langley Research Center before and after his graduation. In October 2006 NASA did not renew his contract and he began to write xkcd full-time. He now supports himself by the sale of xkcd related merchandise. The webcomic quickly became very popular, garnering up to 70 million hits a month by October 2007.
He has also toured the lecture circuit, giving speeches at such places as Google's Googleplex in Mountain View, California.
As of May 2008, Munroe lived in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Munroe announced in September 2011 that he had

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), commonly referred to as Disney, is an American multinational diversified mass media corporation headquartered in Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, California, United States. It is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, music, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Studios, and today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, A+E Networks, and ABC Family;

True Knowledge is an internet search company based in Cambridge, England. The UK startup, which recently won Angel funding, has developed an
application which represents facts as entities within a
broad knowledge-base that computers can understand and process. It
answers question through deduction and cross-referencing to produce
what looks, to all intents and purposes, like a human response.

Ziff Davis Inc. (ZD) is an American publisher and Internet company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich hobbies such as cars, photography, and electronics. However, since 1980, Ziff Davis has primarily published computer and technology related magazines, and its growing number of websites, spun off from its magazines, have established Ziff Davis as an Internet Information company.
Ziff Davis had several broadcasting properties, first in the mid-1970s, and later with its own technology network ZDTV, later renamed to TechTV, that was sold to Vulcan Ventures in 2001. Ziff Davis' magazine publishing and Internet operations offices are based in New York City, San Francisco and Woburn (Massachusetts).
The company (Ziff Davis Media) announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 5, 2008 and emerged, following a court supervised corporate restructuring in July 2009.
On January 6, 2009, the company sold 1up.com to UGO Entertainment, a division of Hearst Corporation and announced the January 2009

Lead Frog LLC provides private business consulting services that focus on highly qualified lead generation, traffic conversion, permission and performance based marketing and brand building with enhanced website development. Lead Frog LLC partners with companies to create an authoritative web presence that captures top organic rankings for a large semantic nets of keyword phrases. Extensive market and performance based research helps ensure that ranked keyword phrases deliver highly target potential clients and/or builds brand awareness through the top search engines.

Enoetic, LLC, is a Tempe, Arizona-based technology company that was founded in 2006 by a team of five scientists and engineers. Their mission is to use their experience in software development using artificial intelligence and data processing to make everyday information meaningful and useful to the average consumer.

Relationals, a pioneer of robust, web-based, multi-tenant business
applications, is a recognized leader in CRM and SFA solutions for
sales, marketing and customer service. Relationals' highly adaptable
CRM is helping major media industry leaders – like Hearst, Gannett,
Nielsen, and E.W. Scripps – streamline the processes of attracting,
retaining, and servicing customers. Its success is the direct result of
being one of the most easy-to-use, feature-rich, and cost effective Web
2.0 platforms available.

SINA Corporation (新浪公司) (NASDAQ: SINA) is an online media company for China and Chinese communities around the world. SINA operates four major business lines: SINA.com, Sina Weibo, SINA Mobile, SINA Online, and SINA.net. SINA has over 100 million registered users worldwide. SINA was recognized by Southern Weekend as the "Chinese Language Media of the Year" for 2003. Sina own Weibo.com, a sortof Facebook - Twitter social network hybrid all rolled into one, which has 56.5 percent of the Chinese micro-blogging market based on active users and 86.6 percent based on browsing time over Chinese competitors such as Tencent and Baidu. While relatively unknown in the U.S., the Chinese social networking service has more than 140 million users and millions of posts per day, and is adding 20 million new users per month, says the company. Sina has said it has more than 60,000 verified accounts, consisting of celebrities, sports stars and other VIPs. The top 100 users now have over 180 million followers combined.

The Berlin State Library (German: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) is a national library in Berlin, Germany and a property of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. It is the largest and most important academic research library in the German speaking world. It collects texts, media and cultural works from all fields in all languages, from all time periods and all countries of the world, which are of interest for academic and research purposes. Among the more famous items in its collection are the oldest biblical illustrations, in the 5th century Quedlinburg Itala fragment, a Gutenberg Bible, the main autograph collection of Goethe, the world's largest collection of Johann Sebastian Bach's and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's manuscripts, and the original score of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
The history of the Berlin State Library closely parallels that of German history. It has lived through creation, neglect, expansion, war damage, division, unification and re-creation like few other libraries.
In the early period, the fortunes of the State Library rose and fell on royal whims. In 1658 Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg decreed that his private books be organized,

Christopher Ryan "Chris" Hardwick (born November 23, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian, emcee, actor, writer, musician, podcaster, television personality, and voice artist. He is best known for performing with Mike Phirman in Hard 'n Phirm, hosting Singled Out, Wired Science, Web Soup, and The Nerdist Podcast, and the current voice of Otis in Back at the Barnyard. In 2011 he began doing intros and outros for a new BBC America Britcom block, and hosting a live half-hour talk show on the AMC network, Talking Dead.
Hardwick was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of former professional bowler Billy Hardwick and Sharon Hills, a real estate agent in Pasadena, California. He was named after American sportscaster Chris Schenkel. He grew up in Tennessee, attending St. Benedict at Auburndale K-12 School, then attended Regis Jesuit High School in Colorado, and then Loyola High School for his senior year.
Hardwick studied philosophy at UCLA, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity during his freshman year. Hardwick was roommates with Wil Wheaton for some time. They met at a showing of Arachnophobia in Burbank, California.
Hardwick was a DJ on influential Los Angeles radio

Darrin C Huss is the vocalist and lyricist of the Canadian dark synthpop band Psyche.
His band has released 11 official albums, 3 EPs, and 5 compilations of their work to date
Together with Niels Hesse, and Marco Drewes, Darrin formed Lounge in 2001, and released a mini-album entitled "Everyday on the label Novatune. Later in 2006 the album was released with added tracks and mixes with "Elegance" as the title on Digipac CD , and also digitally.
In 2007 a solo EP entitled "Radio Melancholia" was released digitally, and as a Cdr. One of the EP tracks "Destination Moon" created with Marcus Zelonka was released as a remix EP digitally. In 2008 "Golden Days" with two updated versions of the song, and some rare Lounge tracks was released digitally by Diventa Recordings.
Born on December 30, 1965 in Cooksville (now Mississauga) in the province of Ontario, Canada.
Around the age of five, he began singing and imitating voices from cartoons. He recorded tapes of himself singing along to songs such as "We´ve Only Just Begun" from The Carpenters to compare the sound of his voice with actual studio recordings. He and his brother Stephen both had music lessons on the Hammond organ sponsored by

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an American multinational corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits.
The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both attended Stanford University. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company's stake. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" and the company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil". In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine. The company offers online productivity software including email, an office suite, and social networking. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications for web

Redding is an American indie rock band from Belleville, Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri. Heavily influenced by British bands like Coldplay, Elbow, Travis, and Radiohead, Redding take their name from the character of Ellis Redding (played by Morgan Freeman) in one of the band’s favorite films, The Shawshank Redemption.
The band consists of:
“First we created the band,” recalls drummer Jon Stamm, “and with that established, we faced the problem of learning how to play instruments.” Having grown up playing music together since grade school, Graves, Stamm, and Gula had become a formidable garage band by high school. In their junior year, the trio adopted the name For the Moment, with the joint decision to step back and get serious. 2003 would be a quiet but crucial year for the developing band. In the singer’s basement, a cheap recording studio was built, which opened an important new door to the writing process. In contrast to previous years, ‘03 would be spent in the studio polishing just a handful of songs, rather than aimlessly playing live shows. Graves found himself at the helm of writing the music, with acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies working their way into the maturing

Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. is an American media company formed on July 1, 2008 as a spin out of the E. W. Scripps Company. Since launching HGTV in 1994, Scripps has become a leader in lifestyle media, developing relevant content for television, the Internet satellite radio, books, magazines, and on emerging media platforms. In addition to HGTV, its lifestyle media brands include Food Network, DIY Network, Cooking Channel, Travel Channel and Great American Country (GAC).
Scripps is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. On February 8, 2011, the company's headquarters facility was awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification, established by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI).
The company has additional office locations in New York City; Los Angeles; Chicago; San Francisco; Chevy Chase, Maryland; Atlanta; Detroit; Nashville; Cincinnati and an office in London (UK).
Scripps' Chairman, President and CEO is Kenneth W. Lowe, who founded HGTV in 1994.
On August 13, 2012, it was reported that The Walt Disney Company was considering purchasing Scripps in a nearly $10 billion

Thomas Marban is an Austrian entrepreneur and founder of several technology startups. After incorporating one of the first web agencies in the mid-nineties, his subsequent company celum Imagine provides digital media asset management solutions for enterprise use and is among the global leaders in this space. He is creator of PopUrls, a mashup of the web's most visited social news sites and portals that started a new trend in so called single page aggregators. He is also part of to the Web Standards Project and Jury member for the annual WebAwards. Today, his holding company tomatic focuses on funding and creation of micro web properties. He's also co-founder of Twidroyd, the first Twitter client for the Android operating system.
In 2009, Thomas worked with Kevin Kelly to relaunch the influential Cool Tools blog.
PopUrls and Twidroyd were acquired by Idealab in July 2010 for an undisclosed amount.
PopUrls was awarded as one of the Top 50 Websites of 2009 by TIME Magazine and in 2010 won the Groundswell Award by Forrester Research.
Thomas received an Honoree at the 11th Annual Webby Awards for enabling real world activities online.
In June 2012, Thomas announced Flipso, an upcoming

Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company known for creating the Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox. The company also is the former owner of LiveJournal. Six Apart is headquartered in Tokyo and is planning to open a new, U.S.-based office in New York. The name is a reference to the six-day age difference between its married co-founders, Ben and Mena Trott.
The company was founded in September 2001 after Ben, during a period of unemployment, wrote what became Movable Type to allow Mena to easily produce her weblog. When version 1.0 was put on the web, it was downloaded over 100 times in the first hour.
In 2003, Six Apart received initial venture capital funding from a group led by Joi Ito and his Neoteny Co., something which allowed the company to hire additional employees, acquire a French weblog publishing company, and unveil plans for what was to become its hosted weblog publishing system, TypePad. In 2004, Six Apart completed a second round of funding with August Capital, a move which allowed it to make acquisitions of other companies. In January 2005, Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, parent company of LiveJournal, from owner

Jay Adelson (born Jay Steven Adelson, September 7, 1970) is an American Internet entrepreneur. His Internet career includes Netcom, DEC's Palo Alto Internet Exchange, co-founder of Equinix, Revision3 and Digg, and CEO of SimpleGeo, Inc before they were purchased by Urban Airship. In 2008, Adelson was named a member of Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People in the World and was listed as a finalist on the same list in 2009.
Adelson was born in Detroit, Michigan and lived in Southfield, Michigan as a child. He attended Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan until he left for college. He attended Boston University in 1988, where he studied Film and Broadcasting along with a concentration in Computer Science, graduating in 1992.
In 1992, Adelson moved to San Rafael, California to pursue a career in post-production sound engineering. After a period of time and world travel, Adelson moved to San Francisco, California in 1993, pursuing instead a career in Internet infrastructure and entrepreneurism. Adelson met Brenda Shea, in May 1994, and they were married in June 1996.
After his experiences at Equinix and stresses associated with his work with government on

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., (NYSE: MHP) is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, and business services. It publishes numerous textbooks and magazines, including Architectural Record and Aviation Week, and is the parent company of Standard & Poor's, Platts, and J.D. Power and Associates. It is the majority owner of the Canadian publisher McGraw-Hill Ryerson (TSX). The company has its corporate headquarters in 1221 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
The McGraw-Hill Companies traces its history back to 1888 when James H. McGraw, co-founder of the company, purchased the American Journal of Railway Appliances. He continued to add further publications, eventually establishing The McGraw Publishing Company in 1899. His co-founder, John A. Hill, had also produced several technical and trade publications and in 1902 formed his own business, The Hill Publishing Company.
In 1909 both men, having known each other's interests, agreed upon an alliance and combined the book departments of their publishing companies into The McGraw-Hill Book

AG Interactive is an American Greetings company that specializes in
creating content to help people of all ages creatively express
themselves and emotionally connect with each other via multiple
electronic platforms including online, mobile, and instant messaging.

B&C Advanced Solutions LTD positions itself at the edge of the technological frontier in order to provide its customers with the most diligent, reliable, and secure solutions available. The company specializes in providing solutions for small-to-medium-sized businesses in areas such as software development, information security, high-traffic and high-speed systems, Unix/Linux based systems, IT, and custom-made interdisciplinary solutions. Furthermore, they also provide complex data-recovery services.

Brent Everett (born on February 10, 1984 in Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian gay pornographic actor and director. Since 2003, he has appeared in over 140 pornographic films for a variety of studios in the United States.
In his early work Brent was classified by studios as a twink; however, more recently he has become too muscular to comfortably fit in this term. He has several defining tattoos on his arms. The tattoo on his right arm is a picture of a scroll with three Chinese characters that read "Dustin" (da si ding 达斯订). He also has two lines tattooed just below his left elbow.
Everett has performed bareback (unprotected sex) in films for various studios (including his debut in Barebacking Across America for Tipo Sesso when he was 18 years old), but most of these were with his boyfriend Chase McKenzie, with whom he started his career in porn. (He also has participated in unprotected anal intercourse with other performers on occasion.) McKenzie had appeared in many films that prominently feature Everett as a cover model. In most appearances, Everett is a top in his videos but occasionally bottoms.
Everett has not signed as an "exclusive" for any of the major porn studios,

British Gas is an energy and home services provider in the United Kingdom. It is a trading name of British Gas Trading Limited, British Gas Services Limited and British Gas New Heating Limited and is a subsidiary of Centrica. Serving around 12 million homes in the UK, British Gas is considered one of the Big Six
The Gas Light and Coke Company was the first public utility company in the world. It was founded by Frederick Albert Winsor and incorporated by Royal Charter on 30 April 1812 under the seal of King George III.
It continued to thrive for the next 136 years, expanding into domestic services whilst absorbing many smaller companies including the Aldgate Gas Light and Coke Company (1819), the City of London Gas Light and Coke Company (1870), the Equitable Gas Light Company (1871), the Great Central Gas Consumer's Company (1870), Victoria Docks Gas Company (1871), Western Gas Light Company (1873), Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company (1876), Independent Gas Light and Coke Company (1876), the London Gas Light Company (1883), Richmond Gas Company (1925), Brentford Gas Company (1926), Pinner Gas Company (1930) and Southend-on-Sea and District Gas Company (1932).
On 1st May 1949 the

Cory Efram Doctorow (/ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.
Born in Toronto, Canada, to Trotskyist teachers, Doctorow's parents were "techno-utopians" and "sort of quasi-doctrinaire Trotskyist school teachers" His father was born in a refugee camp in Azerbaijan, and Doctorow became involved with nuclear disarmament activism and as a Greenpeace campaigner as a child. He received his high school diploma from the SEED School, an anarchistic "free school" in Toronto, and attended four universities without attaining a degree. He later served on the board of directors for the Grindstone Island Co-operative in Big Rideau Lake in Ontario.
In 1992, Doctorow went on a volunteer visit to Costa Rica with Youth Challenge International (YCI), which he found "profoundly good and profoundly enriching". In June 1999,

David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer and policy advocate. He is a founder and current president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and edits FrontPage Magazine. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom, whose self-stated goal is combating "leftist indoctrination" in academia.
Horowitz was raised by parents who were members of the Communist Party USA. Between 1956 and 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left before rejecting Leftism completely. Horowitz has recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospectives, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.
Horowitz was born to a Secular Jewish family in Forest Hills, New York City. His parents, Phil and Blanche Horowitz, were high school teachers. Phil taught English and Blanche taught stenography. Horowitz majored in English and received a BA from Columbia University in 1959 and a master's degree in English literature at University of California, Berkeley.
Phil and Blanche Horowitz were long-standing members of the American Communist Party and avid supporters of Joseph Stalin.
According to Horowitz,
"Underneath

Gary Vaynerchuk (born November 14, 1975, in Babruysk, U.S.S.R. [now Belarus]) is a video blogger, co-owner and director of operations of a wine retail store, and an author and public speaker on the subjects of social media, brand building and e-commerce. Vaynerchuk immigrated to the U.S. in 1978, and after graduating from Mount Ida College in Newton, MA, transformed his father's Springfield, NJ liquor store into a large scale retail wine store named Wine Library, and in 2006 started the video blog Wine Library TV, a daily internet webcast on the subject of wine, which launched his career of internet celebrity.
He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, GQ, and Time, appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Ellen. Vaynerchuk has been described as "the first wine guru of the YouTube era", "the wine world's new superstar", and by Rob Newsom, a Washington State wine maker, "outside of Robert Parker, probably the most influential wine critic in the United States". In the July 2009 Decanter publication of "The Power List" ranking of the wine industry's individuals of influence, Vaynerchuk placed at number 40, citing that he "represents the power of blogging".
In August 2010 it

International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM, is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
The company was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) through a merger of three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company. CTR adopted the name International Business Machines in 1924, using a name previously designated to CTR's subsidiary in Canada and later South America. Its distinctive culture and product branding has given it the nickname Big Blue.
In 2012, Fortune ranked IBM the #2 largest U.S. firm in terms of number of employees (433,362), the #4 largest in terms of market capitalization, the #9 most profitable, and the #19 largest firm in terms of revenue. Globally, the company was ranked the #31 largest in terms of revenue by Forbes for 2011. Other rankings for 2011/2012 include #1 company for leaders (Fortune), #1 green

Kris Krug (also known as "kk" and "kk+") is a fashion and editorial photographer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and founder of photography studio Static Photography. He is also a technologist who speaks internationally on the topics of Creative Commons, open source culture, photography and the Internet.
Krug was the president of an online magazine called Spark-online.com which he founded in October 1998. This was one of the earliest web communities available on the internet.
In March 2004 He started Bryght (a Drupal development company). Bryght was acquired by Raincity Studios, a comprehensive purveyor of services related to the Web and social media, in November 2007. By way of the acquisition, he served as President of Raincity Studios until March 2009.
He is an author, having co-written BitTorrent for Dummies with Susannah Gardner, an author/technologist. The book was published on September 30, 2005.
Krug is the organizer and founder of PhotoCamp, a photography unconference with BarCamp origins. He has organized five unconference events including BarCamp Shanghai,, Barcamp Vancouver, and the past three years of Northern Voice..
Krug is a well known contributor to the

Leighton Smith (b.13 Dec 1947) is an Australian-born talkback radio host based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is on air, Monday to Friday, between 8:30 a.m. and midday NZST on foreign-owned media conglomerate, Newstalk ZB.
He always starts his show with a monologue of a few minutes discussing his thoughts on recent events and setting a few potential discussion topics for the talkback part of his show. Smith is a right-winger, an advocate of social authoritarianism and a denier of anthropogenic global warming. He sometimes posts links on his own personal web site relating to issues he has raised.
In a 2007 interview with libertarian magazine the Free Radical, he described himself as somewhat libertarian. He owns the Clevedon Hills vineyard, near Auckland.

Opera Software ASA (OSE: OPERA) is a Norwegian software company, primarily known for its Opera family of web browsers with over 220 million users worldwide. Opera Software is also involved in promoting Web standards through participation in the W3C. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange. The company also has offices in Sweden, Poland, the People's Republic of China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Australia and the United States. Opera's stated vision is "to deliver the best Internet experience on any device."
Opera Software was founded as an independent company on August 30, 1995 by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsøy. The company was created to continue what was originally a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company.
Opera Software's first product, the Opera web browser version 2.1 for Windows, was released in 1997. Opera Software had an IPO in February 2004, and was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange March 11, 2004.
In an attempt to capitalize on the emerging market for Internet-connected handheld devices, a project to port the Opera browser to more platforms was

RivalSoft, the creators of RivalMap, provide innovative web-based
applications to companies of all sizes, helping them be more
productive, make better decisions, and build better communication.
RivalSoft's mission is to make easy-to-use software that empowers
companies and their employees, improving the work-flow of individuals
while providing collective results for the entire company.

Roman Heart is the stage name of an American gay adult entertainment film actor.
Under the name Linc Madison, he gave his first adult film performance in the 2004 movie Flesh, after which he signed a contract as an exclusive for the gay porn studio Falcon Entertainment.
Heart often appears as the bottom in sex scenes.
Heart is the cover model in the big budget 2005 production Cross Country produced and directed by Chris Steele, also for Falcon Studios. He was featured as the cover model in the July 2005 issue of Freshmen magazine where he was elected Freshman of the Year for 2006. In 2007, Heart appeared in his only film outside of Falcon for Ridgeline Films "A Rising Star", co-starring with studio founder and porn actor Jason Ridge.
Heart currently lives in West Hollywood, California after ending his 7 year on again-off again romance with Benjamin Bradley. In 2009 they created a commercial blog with insights on their life together, which has ceased to exist as of 2012.

Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. Scribd's mission is to create the world's largest open library of documents where everyone can publish original contents. The company was founded in 2006 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam.
The company has raised money from notable Silicon Valley investors,
including Paul Graham's Y Combinator, the Kinsey Hills group, Redpoint Ventures and several prominent angel investors.

Through its patented technology and proprietary vertical search
engines, Searchme delivers more meaningful and targeted search results
to its users.

Searchme's intuitive category suggest
technology provides users with a dynamic and rewarding search
experience by delivering relevant results that are tailored
specifically to their unique areas of interest.

The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) is an American mass media company, best known for owning the newspaper for which it is named, The Washington Post. The company also owns Kaplan, Inc., a leading international provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools, and businesses. In addition, the company owns The Slate Group, Express, El Tiempo Latino, The Gazette and Southern Maryland newspapers, The Herald (Everett, WA), Post-Newsweek Stations (Detroit, Houston, Miami, Orlando, San Antonio and Jacksonville), Cable ONE—a cable TV and Internet service provider with subscribers in midwestern, western, and southern states—and Avenue100 Media Solutions, an online lead generation provider. The company previously owned Newsweek and Newsweek.com, but sold the magazine in 2010 after years of financial losses.
The Washington Post Company history dates back to 1877, when the Post was first published. The Washington Post Company was incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1889, and remained a District of Columbia corporation until it changed its state of incorporation to Delaware in 2003. It is a public company, trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (often abbreviated TBS Networks, TBS, Inc. or simply Turner) is the Time Warner subsidiary managing the collection of cable networks and properties initiated or acquired by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner starting during the 1970s. The company has its headquarters in the CNN Center in Atlanta. TBS, Inc. merged with Time Warner on October 10, 1996, and now operates as a semi-autonomous unit of Time Warner. This is Time Warner's second experience with advertiser-supported cable broadcasting, after co-owning the Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company through Warner Communications before selling it to MTV Networks during 1987.
The company's current assets include CNN, HLN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, truTV, and Turner Classic Movies.
The current chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting is Philip I. Kent.
During 1970, Ted Turner, then owner of a successful Atlanta-based outdoor advertising company, purchased WJRJ-Atlanta, Channel 17, a small, struggling Ultra High Frequency station, and renamed it WTCG, for parent company Turner Communications Group. By careful programming acquisitions, Turner guided the station to success. During

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is a division of the National Institutes of Health. Its collections include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences including some of the world's oldest and rarest works.
The current director of the NLM, since 1984, is Donald A.B. Lindberg.
Since 1879, the NLM has published the Index Medicus, a monthly guide to articles in nearly five thousand selected journals. The last issue of Index Medicus was printed in December 2004, but this information is offered in the freely accessible PubMed amongst the more than fifteen million MEDLINE journal article references and abstracts going back to the 1960s and 1.5 million references going back to the 1950s.
The NLM also runs the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which houses biological databases (PubMed among them) that are freely accessible on the Internet through the Entrez search engine.
The Toxicology and Environmental Health Program was

VTap is a video search engine launched on 10 September 2007 and designed for broadband-enabled phones and developed by venture capitalist firm Veveo; a funded startup headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts. The company claims Vtap has a huge index of web videos comparable to the biggest video portals, providing a search-and-browse system that enables finding videos from a huge network database even using devices such as phones and televisions. Videos can be played on a number of phones including iPhones, Windows mobile phones , several Nokia phones. and the BlackBerry wireless device. Veveo's network servers convert the original format on-the-fly into a format that can stream and play on the specific phone in question.
VTap's basic search technology is not specific to videos. The service also provides a phone-enhanced Wikipedia search service. The same technology can also be used to enhance remote-control based TV Listings and VOD search offered by IPTV and cable television operators.

WebMD (NASDAQ: WBMD) is an American corporation which provides health information services. It was founded in 1996 by Jim Clark and Pavan Nigam as Healthscape, later Healtheon, and then acquired WebMD in 1999 to form Healtheon/WebMD. The name was later shortened to WebMD.
It is primarily known for its public Internet site, which has information regarding health and health care, including a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, "drugs information", blogs of physicians with specific topics and a place to store personal medical information. As of February 2011, WebMD’s network of sites reaches an average of 86.4 million visitors per month and is the leading health portal in the United States.
URAC, the largest accrediting body for health care, has accredited WebMD’s operations in everything from proper disclosures and health content to security and privacy continuously since 2001.
WebMD is financed by advertising, third-party contributions and sponsorships.
WebMD also offers services to physicians and private clients. For example, they publish WebMD the Magazine, a patient-directed publication distributed bimonthly to 85 percent of physician waiting rooms. Medscape is a

Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Arabic: يوسف القرضاوي Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwiy‎; born 9 September 1926) is a controversial Egyptian Islamic theologian. He is best known for his programme, ash-Shariah wal-Hayat ("Shariah and Life"), broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an estimated audience of 60 million worldwide. He is also well known for IslamOnline, a popular website he helped found in 1997 and for which he now serves as chief religious scholar.
Al-Qaradawi has published more than 120 books, including The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam and Islam: The Future Civilization. He has also received eight international prizes for his contributions to Islamic scholarship, and is considered one of the most influential such scholars living today. Al-Qaradawi has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian political organization, but twice (in 1976 and 2004) turned down offers for the official role in the organization.
Some of al-Qaradawi's views have been controversial in the West: he was refused an entry visa to the United Kingdom in 2008, and barred from entering France in 2012.
As of 2004, al-Qaradawi was a trustee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic

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